Indigenous vs Cultural - What's the difference?
indigenous | cultural | Related terms |
(chiefly, of living things) Born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.
* 1862 , , "Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree":
Innate, inborn.
* 1852 , , Uncle Tom's Cabin , ch. 18:
* 1883 , , "Stephen Archer" in Stephen Archer and Other Tales :
Pertaining to culture.
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Indigenous is a related term of cultural.
As adjectives the difference between indigenous and cultural
is that indigenous is (chiefly|of living things) born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion while cultural is pertaining to culture.indigenous
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(-)- Not only the Indian, but many indigenous insects, birds, and quadrupeds, welcomed the apple-tree to these shores.
- She was a native and essential cook, as much as Aunt Chloe,—cooking being an indigenous talent of the African race.
- He had all the tricks of a newspaper boy indigenous in him.
Synonyms
* (born or engendered in) aboriginal, autochthonous, nativeDerived terms
* indigenity * indigenously * indigenousness * nonindigenouscultural
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Adjective
(en adjective)Sarah Glaz
Ode to Prime Numbers, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}
