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Mestizo vs Indigenous - What's the difference?

mestizo | indigenous |

As a noun mestizo

is a person of mixed ancestry, especially one of spanish and native american heritage.

As an adjective indigenous is

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

mestizo

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage.

    • See also

    * Metis, metis

    indigenous

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (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