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autochthonous

/aw-tok-thuh-nuhs/US // ɔˈtɒk θə nəs //UK // (ɔːˈtɒkθənəs) //

自生的,自生,自生性,自生自灭

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Ecology. pertaining to autochthons; aboriginal; indigenous.
    • : Pathology. found in the part of the body in which it originates, as a cancerous lesion.found in a locality in which it originates, as an infectious disease.
    • : Psychology. of or relating to ideas that arise independently of the individual's own train of thought and seem instead to have some alien or external agency as their source.
    • : Geology. formed in the region where found.Compare allochthonous.

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Examples

  • If any of the autochthonous idlers asked him what he called himself, he replied shortly, "an engineer."

  • The Ukrainian race is as nearly autochthonous as any in central or eastern Europe.

  • Are not the speakers of Celtic languages the descendants of the autochthonous peoples of Western Europe?

  • It is not probable that the Eupatrid families were all autochthonous, even in the loose sense of that term.

  • This is so strange an utterance, that it could only have come from one who fancied himself autochthonous.