Indigen

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An indigene or native.
  2. 2
    an indigenous person who was born in a particular place wordnet
  3. 3
    A plant known to be indigenous to a region, rather than a cultigen.

Synonyms

All synonyms
aboriginalaborigineaborigineindigenenative

Etymology

Variant of indigene. In a botanical sense first used by Liberty Hyde Bailey in 1918.

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