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indigenous
What does indigenous mean?
indigenous (adjective): native to a land, especially before colonization.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you pronounce indigenous?
/ɪnˈdɪdʒənəs/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does indigenous come from?
Borrowed from Late Latin indigenus (“native, born in a country”), from indi- (indu-), an old derivative of in (“in”), gen- the root of gignō (“give birth to”), and English -ous.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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native to a land, especially before colonization
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