ADJECTIVE
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originating where it is found
the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan
the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo
autochthonous rocks and people and folktales
endemic folkways
How To Use autochthonal In A Sentence
- the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo
- Anymore than building a city on land that was previously only being used for seasonal hunting bestows autochthonal precedent on that city's inhabitants. Languagehat.com: NATIVE SPEAKER.
- The eight hundred thousand Gónds of the Góndwana are supposed to be members of the great autochthonal family of ancient India. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876
- The Church had no illusions about the enormous task of converting the entire autochthonal population of that hostile moon to the saving grace of the Divine. Vignette: remuelda
- How intolerant not to appreciate being called "victim" and "potato", standard invectives patriotic German Muslims are fond of hurling toward their autochthonal compatriots. The Editrix' Roncesvalles
- It is made from Sangiovese, which is the most well-known Italian autochthonal grape for excellence.
- The present inhabitants are not autochthonal, no more than we are the first settlers of this country. The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882
- We passed Cabul merchants peddling their dried fruit on shaggy-haired camels; to these succeeded, in more lonesome portions of the road, small groups of Korkas, wretched remnants of one of the autochthonal families of Central India -- even lower in the scale of civilization than the Gónds, among whom they are found; and to these the richly-caparisoned elephants of some wealthy Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
- These Sontals reminded me of the Gónds whom I had seen, though they seemed to be far manlier representatives of the autochthonal races of India than the former. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876