ABORIGINAL

a. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth.

2.
a.

Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood.

3.
n.

An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines.

4.
n.

An animal or a plant native to the region. It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands. Darwin.


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