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Indigenous vs Pothos - What's the difference?

indigenous | pothos |

As an adjective indigenous

is (chiefly|of living things) born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.

As a noun pothos is

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indigenous

English

Adjective

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  • (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":
    • Not only the Indian, but many indigenous insects, birds, and quadrupeds, welcomed the apple-tree to these shores.
  • Innate, inborn.
  • * 1852 , , Uncle Tom's Cabin , ch. 18:
    • She was a native and essential cook, as much as Aunt Chloe,—cooking being an indigenous talent of the African race.
  • * 1883 , , "Stephen Archer" in Stephen Archer and Other Tales :
    • He had all the tricks of a newspaper boy indigenous in him.

    Synonyms

    * (born or engendered in) aboriginal, autochthonous, native

    Derived terms

    * indigenity * indigenously * indigenousness * nonindigenous

    pothos

    English

    (Epipremnum aureum)

    Noun

    (pothoses)
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  • * {{quote-news, pagetitle=pothos, year=2009, date=February 2, author=Kenyon Wallace, title=A factory fitted for a green future, work=Toronto Star citation
    • , passage=Vines of golden pothos climb the steel support beams.}}
  • (uncountable, botany) , a genus of plants consisting of subtropical and tropical, climbing, flowering vines, indigenous to the environs of the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.

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