indigenous
/in-DIJ-uh-nus/adjectiveoriginating naturally in a particular place; native
“The reserve protects indigenous grasses found nowhere else.”
- Synonyms
- native, aboriginal, endemic
- Antonyms
- foreign, introduced
- Root
- gen- (birth)
- Memory hook
- indi (within) + gen (born): born within the land.
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