Aboriginal vs Maouri - What's the difference?
aboriginal | maouri |
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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A member of an ethnic group of western Africa, a subgroup of the Hausa, concentrated around the Dallol Maouri (Maouri Valley) of the Niger River.
As nouns the difference between aboriginal and maouri
is that aboriginal is an animal or plant native to a region while Maouri is a member of an ethnic group of western Africa, a subgroup of the Hausa, concentrated around the Dallol Maouri (Maouri Valley) of the Niger River.As an adjective aboriginal
is first according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.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.