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indigenous

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indigenous [in′dij·ə·nəs]
(science and technology)
Existing and having originated naturally in a particular region or environment.

indigenous
Said of a plant or tree which is native to the area in which it is grown.


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First, it is likely that before the rise of the Ionian epos there existed in Boeotia a purely popular and indigenous poetry of a crude form: it comprised, we may suppose, versified proverbs and precepts relating to life in general, agricultural maxims, weather-lore, and the like.
Also a few pages might have been given up profitably to the consideration of the indigenous flora and fauna of Kukuanaland.
Strictly this word is not indigenous to the whale's vocabulary.
 
 
 
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