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Indigen vs Indigene - What's the difference?

indigen | indigene |

As nouns the difference between indigen and indigene

is that indigen is an indigene or native while indigene is indigenous person, native, indigene.

As an adjective indigene is

indigenous.

indigen

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An indigene or native.
  • A plant known to be indigenous to a region, rather than a cultigen.

    • indigene

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Indigenous.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An indigenous person; a native.
  • * 2005 , (Christopher Hitchens), "AndrĂ© Malraux: One Man's Fate", New York Times Book Review , 10 Apr 2005:
    • The price for all this chutzpah was that Malraux then had to take up the cause of the colonial indigenes as if it really mattered to him.