Aboriginal \Ab`o*rig"i*nal\, a. [See Aborigines.]
1. First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the
aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with
aboriginal turf." --Wordsworth.
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2. Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindu of aboriginal
blood.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Aboriginal \Ab`o*rig"i*nal\, n.
1. An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines.
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2. An animal or a plant native to the region.
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It may well be doubted whether this frog is an
aboriginal of these islands. --Darwin.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
aboriginal
adj 1: being or composed of people inhabiting a region from the
beginning; "native Americans"; "the aboriginal peoples
of Australia" [syn: native] [ant: nonnative]
2: having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or
original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal
eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest
primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life"
[syn: primal, primeval, primaeval, primordial]
n : a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in
Australia when Europeans arrived [syn: Aborigine, Abo,
native Australian, Australian Aborigine]
WordNet (r) 2.0
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "aboriginal":
abecedarian, aborigine, ancestral, antenatal, antepatriarchal,
atavistic, autochthon, autochthonous, barbarian, barbaric,
barbarous, basal, basic, beginning, budding, central, creative,
crucial, elemental, elementary, embryonic, endemic, fetal,
formative, foundational, fundamental, generative, genetic,
germinal, gestatory, homebred, homegrown, humanoid, in embryo,
in its infancy, in ovo, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate,
inchoative, incipient, incunabular, indigene, indigenous, infant,
infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory,
inventive, nascent, natal, native, native-born, original,
parturient, patriarchal, postnatal, preadamite, preglacial,
pregnant, prehistoric, prehuman, prenatal, primal, primary, prime,
primeval, primitive, primogenial, primoprimitive, primordial,
pristine, procreative, protogenic, protohistoric, protohuman,
radical, rudimental, rudimentary, savage, seminal, ur,
vernacular
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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