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[ in-dij-uh-nuhs ]

/ ɪnˈdɪdʒ ə nəs /

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adjective

originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to): the plants indigenous to Canada.

Indigenous.relating to or being a people who are the original, earliest known inhabitants of a region, or are their descendants: the Indigenous Maori of New Zealand;the Indigenous languages of the Americas.

innate; inherent; natural (usually followed by to): feelings indigenous to human beings.

Origin of indigenous

First recorded in 1640–50; from Latin indigen(a) “native, original inhabitant” (indi-, by-form of in- in-2 (cf. indagate) + -gena, derivative from base of gignere “to bring into being”; cf. genital, genitor) + -ous

OTHER WORDS FROM indigenous

in·dig·e·nous·ly, adverbin·dig·e·nous·ness, in·di·gen·i·ty [in-di-jen-i-tee], /ˌɪn dɪˈdʒɛn ɪ ti/, nounnon·in·dig·e·nous, adjectiveun·in·dig·e·nous, adjective

un·in·dig·e·nous·ly, adverb

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH indigenous

endogenous, indigenous

Words related to indigenous

domestic, endemic, homegrown, primitive, aboriginal, autochthonous, chthonic, congenital, connate, inbred, inherent, inherited, innate, natural, original, unacquired

How to use indigenous in a sentence

• Here you’ll partner with indigenous people to harvest cassavas, fish for food, and communicate only with gestures.

• Now, otters threaten to deplete these profitable invertebrate fisheries, which have sustained coastal indigenous communities.

• Dominguez-Bello has worked with local researchers in Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru and Brazil to collect and study stool samples from indigenous populations in those countries.

• The initiative, run as a global nonprofit, would encourage the development of more microbiome collections by creating courses to train researchers across the globe to collect samples from indigenous populations in their regions.

• So many indigenous communities and places in the Southwest are impacted by mining.

• Islands overrun by flawed people, both indigenous and imperialist.

• Seattle is one of the most recent, with its city council voting this year to adopt the indigenous version of the holiday.

• Grown in the jungle by the indigenous Kichwa, guayusa (gwhy-you-sa) is a sacred leaf used in ceremonial rituals.

• The vine and the ceremony are deeply entwined with South American indigenous religions of the Amazon.

• Many indigenous people believe consuming yagé opens up pathways to the spirit world, and allows conversations with these spirits.

• Brazilian bean; the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, indigenous to America.

• In the domain of politics I should make use of the indigenous institutions and serve them by curing them of their proved defects.

• Following out the Swadeshi spirit, I observe the indigenous institutions and the village panchayats hold me.

• They found human indigenous races on a few worlds, all of them at a rather low technical level, and they taught them.

• Loyalty must be indigenous to a soil where, under such adverse conditions, it has taken such deep root and flourishes.

adjective (when postpositive, foll by to)

originating or occurring naturally (in a country, region, etc); native

innate (to); inherent (in)

Derived forms of indigenous

indigenously, adverbindigenousness or indigenity (ˌɪndɪˈdʒɛnɪtɪ), noun

Word Origin for indigenous

C17: from Latin indigenus, from indigena indigene, from indi- in + gignere to beget