Aboriginal vs Autochthonic - What's the difference?
aboriginal | autochthonic |
First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.
* 1814 , , The Excursion , Longman et al. (publishers), [http://books.google.com/books?id=T18JAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA277&dq=aboriginal page 277]:
Living in a land before colonization by the Europeans.
(Aboriginal)
An animal or plant native to a region.
* Charles Darwin
(Aboriginal)
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existing where it was formed or born; native, aboriginal, indigenous
As adjectives the difference between aboriginal and autochthonic
is that aboriginal is of or pertaining to australian aboriginal peoples, aborigines, or their language while autochthonic is existing where it was formed or born; native, aboriginal, indigenous.As a noun aboriginal
is an aboriginal inhabitant of australia, aborigine.As a proper noun aboriginal
is any of the native languages spoken by australian aborigines.aboriginal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Green in the Church-yard, beautiful and green; / / And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers.
Synonyms
* (indigenous to a place) native, indigenous, autochthonous, endemic, original, first, earliest, primitive, ancient, primordial, primevalDerived terms
* aboriginality * aboriginallyNoun
(en noun)- It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands.
