Aboriginal

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  aboriginal
       adj 1: being or composed of people inhabiting a region from the
              beginning; "native Americans"; "the aboriginal peoples
              of Australia" [syn: {native}] [ant: {nonnative}]
       2: 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: {primal}, {primeval}, {primaeval}, {primordial}]
       n : a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in
           Australia when Europeans arrived [syn: {Aborigine}, {Abo},
            {native Australian}, {Australian Aborigine}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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