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adjective

Aboriginal adj.

First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf."

Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindu of aboriginal blood.

noun

Aboriginal n.

An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines.

An animal or a plant native to the region. "It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Aboriginal" Quotes from Famous Books

... and industrial pursuits. This policy, inaugurated many years since, has met with signal success whenever it has been pursued in good faith and with becoming liberality by the United States. The necessity for extending it as far as practicable in our relations with the aboriginal population is greater now than at any preceding period. Whilst we furnish subsistence and instruction to the Indians and guarantee the undisturbed enjoyment of their treaty rights, we should habitually insist upon the faithful ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... a fishing excursion to a tidal lagoon whose waters debouched into the Pacific, about fifteen miles southward from the little township. Behind us followed a young man named Walter Trenfield, who was one of my father's assigned servants, and an aboriginal named 'King Billy'; these two carried our provisions, cooking utensils and blankets, for we intended to camp out ...

— Ridan The Devil And Other Stories - 1899 • Louis Becke

... temporary duties, with a two-fold desire of rendering what public services I could during my unavoidable period of inaction in the country, as well as of enlarging my opportunities of observation on the aboriginal race. ...

— Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 2 (of 2) • George Grey

... dance which is now sweeping the country the writer offers the following as the basis of an entirely new and original dance, strictly national in character and full of that quaint old rustic, not to say aboriginal, ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 29, 1919 • Various

... see the flying-fish sitting on the branches, I hear them sing, and they fly and mate and build their nests in the branches; I see a dun-coloured aboriginal she-female, mongolianee, petite, squat-faced, And she has a cast in her sinister optic and a snub nose but her heart is true; And I gaze into her heart (which is true), and I find that she is musing (as indeed I often muse) on ME, Me ...

— Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses • John Kendall (AKA Dum-Dum)

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