How To Use autochthon In A Sentence
- The practice in ancient Greece of describing legendary heroes and men of ancient lineage as "earthborn" greatly strengthened the doctrine of autochthony; for instance, the Athenians wore golden grasshoppers in their hair in token that they were born from the soil and had always lived in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
- The subautochthonous granodiorites and transitional migmatites contain the youngest zircons of the Pena Negra Complex.
- But it was 14-year-old David Tidmarsh of South Bend, Indiana who spelled the final word autochthonous to become this year's champion. CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2004
- It is made from Sangiovese, which is the most well-known Italian autochthonal grape for excellence.
- Its autochthonic ethos is threatened by the paradox of a heterodox dogma of inclusion. Firedoglake » Puddles Has Problems
- For example, many of the tribes that organize tourist packages attempt to portray the tribes as dynamic, vibrant cultures proud of their autochthonous identities but equally proud of their accomplishments in the modern world.
- Yet he impressed on all he said, on good words and bad alike, a marked autochthonic quality, as of the self-raised spontaneous products of some miraculous soil, from which prodigies and portents spring. Voltaire
- Greeks poured honey, but not wine, in their rites for the dead, and in all the ceremonies which had to do with the worship of the earth deities -- the ancient autochthonic gods, older than the Olympians. Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland
- Distinctive rock types found on the westernmost nunataks around Hamberg Gletscher are interpreted as autochthonous Caledonian foreland.
- In contrast, the sedimentology of an autochthonous fossil plant site retains a primary paleoecological signal.
