"aboriginal" in the noun sense
1. native, indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal
an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
"the art of the natives of the northwest coast"
"the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students"
"aboriginal" in the adjective sense
1. native, aboriginal
characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning
"native Americans"
"the aboriginal peoples of Australia"
2. aboriginal, primal, primeval, primaeval, primordial
having existed from the beginning in an earliest or original stage or state
"aboriginal forests"
"primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"
"the forest primeval"
"primordial matter"
"primordial forms of life"
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