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indigenous

/in-dij-uh-nuhs/US // ɪnˈdɪdʒ ə nəs //UK // (ɪnˈdɪdʒɪnəs) //

土著,土著人,本地,土人

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native: the plants indigenous to Canada.
    • : Indigenous. relating to or being a people who are the original, earliest known inhabitants of a region, or are their descendants: the Indigenous Maori of New Zealand;the Indigenous languages of the Americas.
    • : innate; inherent; natural: feelings indigenous to human beings.

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Examples

  • Here you’ll partner with indigenous people to harvest cassavas, fish for food, and communicate only with gestures.

  • Now, otters threaten to deplete these profitable invertebrate fisheries, which have sustained coastal indigenous communities.

  • Dominguez-Bello has worked with local researchers in Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru and Brazil to collect and study stool samples from indigenous populations in those countries.

  • The initiative, run as a global nonprofit, would encourage the development of more microbiome collections by creating courses to train researchers across the globe to collect samples from indigenous populations in their regions.

  • So many indigenous communities and places in the Southwest are impacted by mining.

  • Islands overrun by flawed people, both indigenous and imperialist.

  • Seattle is one of the most recent, with its city council voting this year to adopt the indigenous version of the holiday.

  • Grown in the jungle by the indigenous Kichwa, guayusa (gwhy-you-sa) is a sacred leaf used in ceremonial rituals.

  • The vine and the ceremony are deeply entwined with South American indigenous religions of the Amazon.

  • Many indigenous people believe consuming yagé opens up pathways to the spirit world, and allows conversations with these spirits.

  • Brazilian bean; the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, indigenous to America.

  • In the domain of politics I should make use of the indigenous institutions and serve them by curing them of their proved defects.

  • Following out the Swadeshi spirit, I observe the indigenous institutions and the village panchayats hold me.

  • They found human indigenous races on a few worlds, all of them at a rather low technical level, and they taught them.

  • Loyalty must be indigenous to a soil where, under such adverse conditions, it has taken such deep root and flourishes.