From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Indigenous \In*dig"e*nous\, adjective [L. indigenus, indigena, fr. OL. indu (fr. in in) + the root of L. gignere to beget, bear. See {In}, and {Gender}.]
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.
Joy and hope are emotions indigenous to the human mind. --I. Taylor.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: 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" [syn: {autochthonal}, {autochthonic}, {autochthonous}, {endemic}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "indigenous": aboriginal, atavistic, autochthonous, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, endemic, genetic, hereditary, homebred, homegrown, in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, inherent, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, local, natal, native, native to, native-born, natural, natural to, organic, original, physical, primal, primitive, temperamental, unacquired, vernacular
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