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- pronunciation:
- ihn
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- Word Parts
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adjective |
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When people are indigenous to a place, they are the first people ever to live there. If an animal or plant is indigenous to a place, that place has always been its home. It has not been brought by people from some other place in the world.
The turkey is indigenous to North and Central America. Turkeys live in other countries now, but they were brought there from North or Central America.- synonyms:
- native
- antonyms:
- foreign
- similar words:
- domestic, original
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| related words: |
local |
| derivations: |
indigenously (adv.), indigenousness (n.) |
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