Aboriginal

Aboriginal
    adj 1: of or pertaining to members of the indigenous people of
           Australia; "an Aboriginal rite"
    2: characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region
       from the beginning; "native Americans"; "the aboriginal
       peoples of Australia" [syn: {native}, {aboriginal}] [ant:
       {nonnative}]
    3: having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original
       stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the
       appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval";
       "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life" [syn:
       {aboriginal}, {primal}, {primeval}, {primaeval},
       {primordial}]
    n 1: a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in
         Australia when Europeans arrived [syn: {Aborigine}, {Abo},
         {Aboriginal}, {native Australian}, {Australian Aborigine}]
    2: an indigenous person who was born in a particular place; "the
       art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian
       government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal
       college students" [syn: {native}, {indigen}, {indigene},
       {aborigine}, {aboriginal}]
    

Aboriginal \Ab`o*rig"i*nal\, a. [See {Aborigines}.]
   1. First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the
      aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with
      aboriginal turf." --Wordsworth.
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   2. Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindu of aboriginal
      blood.
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Aboriginal \Ab`o*rig"i*nal\, n.
   1. An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines.
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   2. An animal or a plant native to the region.
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            It may well be doubted whether this frog is an
            aboriginal of these islands.          --Darwin.
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86 Moby Thesaurus words for "aboriginal":
      abecedarian, aborigine, ancestral, antenatal, antepatriarchal,
      atavistic, autochthon, autochthonous, barbarian, barbaric,
      barbarous, basal, basic, beginning, budding, central, creative,
      crucial, elemental, elementary, embryonic, endemic, fetal,
      formative, foundational, fundamental, generative, genetic,
      germinal, gestatory, homebred, homegrown, humanoid, in embryo,
      in its infancy, in ovo, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate,
      inchoative, incipient, incunabular, indigene, indigenous, infant,
      infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory,
      inventive, nascent, natal, native, native-born, original,
      parturient, patriarchal, postnatal, preadamite, preglacial,
      pregnant, prehistoric, prehuman, prenatal, primal, primary, prime,
      primeval, primitive, primogenial, primoprimitive, primordial,
      pristine, procreative, protogenic, protohistoric, protohuman,
      radical, rudimental, rudimentary, savage, seminal, ur,
      vernacular