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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Aboriginal \Ab'o*rig"i*nal\, adjective [See {Aborigines}.]
1. First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. ''Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf.'' --Wordsworth.
2. Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindu of aboriginal blood.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Aboriginal \Ab'o*rig"i*nal\, noun
1. An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines.
2. An animal or a plant native to the region.
It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands. --Darwin.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
aboriginal
adjective
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}]
noun: 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
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