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autochthon
[ aw-tok-thuhn ]
noun
- an aboriginal inhabitant.
- Ecology. one of the indigenous animals or plants of a region.
- Geology. a geological formation formed in the region where found.
autochthon
/ -胃蓲n; 蓴藧藞t蓲k胃蓹n /
noun
- often plural one of the earliest known inhabitants of any country; aboriginal
- an animal or plant that is native to a particular region
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of autochthon1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of autochthon1
Example Sentences
Here, the conflict escalated sharply at the beginning of the year, after candidates in national elections encouraged the autochthon 鈥 popularly known as the Pygmies 鈥 to return to the forest.
But now that there is evidence to indicate that the Terran Colony was an experiment, the planting of one Hainish Normal group on a world with its own proto-hominid autochthones, the possibility cannot be ignored.
The Castilian tongue is indeed Latin, but I fancy that the people of Spain are as much the children of the soil鈥攁utochthones鈥攁s the Athenians themselves.
As a rule the European peoples regarded themselves in antiquity as autochthones if they did not look upon themselves as immigrants from regions within Europe to the territories they inhabited in historic times.
In a foregoing chapter I stated that the Japanese, whatever ethnological interpretation be given to them, can hardly be considered as autochthons.
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