Indigenous

Adjective

 * 1)  Born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.
 * 2) * 1862, Henry David Thoreau, "Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree":
 * Not only the Indian, but many indigenous insects, birds, and quadrupeds, welcomed the apple-tree to these shores.
 * 1) Innate, inborn.
 * 2) * 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, ch. 18:
 * She was a native and essential cook, as much as Aunt Chloe,—cooking being an indigenous talent of the African race.
 * 1) * 1883, George MacDonald, "Stephen Archer" in Stephen Archer and Other Tales:
 * He had all the tricks of a newspaper boy indigenous in him.

Synonyms

 * aboriginal, autochthonous, native

Derived terms

 * indigenity
 * indigenously
 * indigenousness
 * nonindigenous

Thesaurus
aboriginal, atavistic, autochthonous, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, endemic, genetic, hereditary, homebred, homegrown, in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, inherent, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, local, natal, native, native to, native-born, natural, natural to, organic, original, physical, primal, primitive, temperamental, unacquired, vernacular

Etymology
From indigenus:, from indi-: (indu-:), an old derivative of in:, undefined: the root of gigno:, and English -ous:. Compare indigene:.

Translations

 * Catalan: indígena
 * Esperanto: indiĝena
 * Estonian: pärismaine
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German: indigen
 * Italian:


 * Persian: بومی
 * Polish: miejscowy, macierzysty
 * Romanian: indigen, autohton
 * Russian:, аборигенный, , туземный, автохтонный
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish: indígena, autóctono, nativo


 * Finnish:
 * French: inné, congénital
 * Italian: innato, congenito


 * Russian: врождённый, природный, прирождённый
 * Spanish: innato, congénito


 * : inheems, inlands, autochtoon