Indigenous

a.	1.
	1.	Native; produced, growing, or living, naturally in a country or climate; not exotic; not imported. Negroes were all transported from Africa and are not indigenous or proper natives of America. - Sir T. Browne. In America, cotton, being indigenous, is cheap. - Lion Playas.
	2.	Native; inherent; innate. Joy and hope are emotions indigenous to the human mind. - I. Taylor.

Adj.

1.

indigenous - originating where it is found; "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo"; "autochthonous rocks and people and folktales"; "endemic folkways"; "the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan" Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic

atavistic, autochthonous, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, genetic, hereditary, homebred, homegrown, in the blood, inbred, incarnate, inherited, instinctive, instinctual, local, natal, native to, native-born, natural, natural to, organic, original, physical, primal, primitive, temperamental, unacquired, vernacular

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