aboriginal

First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.

• Green in the Church-yard, beautiful and green; / […] / And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers.

Living in a land before colonization by foreigners.

• Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase to the Leviathan?
• Had a vast knowledge of the aboriginal tribes; was, in spite of his juniority, the greatest authority on the aboriginal Gullals.

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An animal or plant native to a region.

• It may be welldoubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands.

Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginalalt-of

• Every one of the groups of islands in the Pacific, many of them only a few days' sail from Australia, have their own customs, religious, political and social, and yet Australia has none, and the aboriginals have imbibed nothing from their i