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Autochthonous Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Aboriginal; indigenous; native.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutAboriginal; indigenous; native.
autochthonous
see under autochthonal
1 : indigenous, native
2 : formed or originating in the place where found
EG: Researchs have made plausible the contention that the autochthonous inhabitants of the region were a mixture of pre-Germanic and Germanic population groups who in the course of time had converged on the main deltaic region of western Europe.
EG:In Central Anbatolia,epecially in Karaman you can find every kind of autochthonous rocks.
Adjective
1. of rocks, deposits, etc.; found where they and their constituents were formed
(antonym) allochthonous
2. 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"
(synonym) autochthonal, autochthonic, endemic, indigenous
(similar) native
Autochthonous Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Autochthon, autochthons or autochthonous may refer to:
In social science:
In social science:
- Autochthon (ancient Greece), in mythology, people born straight from the earth, with no human parents
- Autochthon (person), member of an indigenous people
- Autochthonous, or indigenism, ethnic nationalism promoting the identity of an indigenous people
- Autochthonous language, the language of an indigenous people
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Autochthonous Definition from Society & Culture Dictionaries & Glossaries
Pertaining to substances (organic matter from plankton), materials, or organisms originating within a particular waterway or lake and remaining in that waterway.
