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Synonyms for autochthonous


Grammar : Adj
Spell : aw-tok-thuh-nuh s
Phonetic Transcription : ɔˈtɒk θə nəs



Définition of autochthonous

Origin :
  • "native, indigenous," 1845, from autochthon + -ous.
  • adj earliest
Example sentences :
  • Sometimes the cultural change was an autochthonous development.
  • Extract from : « A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open » by Theodore Roosevelt
  • Intentionally, and to a certain extent, Rimsky's work is autochthonous.
  • Extract from : « Musical Portraits » by Paul Rosenfeld
  • Apparently from mother earth herself they had come, autochthonous.
  • Extract from : « Where the Trail Divides » by Will Lillibridge
  • Thus Ancient Egypt believed itself to be autochthonous, and traced the origin of arts and sciences to native gods.
  • Extract from : « Human Origins » by Samuel Laing
  • Smilisca is an excellent example of an Autochthonous Middle American genus.
  • Extract from : « Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca » by William E. Duellman
  • If any of the autochthonous idlers asked him what he called himself, he replied shortly, "an engineer."
  • Extract from : « Tess of the d'Urbervilles » by Thomas Hardy
  • Everything shows that the civilizations and religions of Mexico and Peru are autochthonous, springing from the soil itself.
  • Extract from : « Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru » by Albert Rville
  • The Egyptians, however, like the ancient Greeks, regarded themselves as autochthonous.
  • Extract from : « The World's Progress, Vol. I (of X) » by Various
  • They did not pretend to be autochthonous, but claimed that their ancestors came from distant regions, in two bands.
  • Extract from : « American Hero-Myths » by Daniel G. Brinton
  • In both cases the Eastern region is vastly richer in genera and species, as well as in autochthonous forms, than the Western.
  • Extract from : « A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2) » by David Starr Jordan

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