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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
indigenous
/ɪnˈdɪdʒɪnəs/
adjective
living or growing naturally in an area, not brought from somewhere else
- “The indigenous population has the legal right to resist.”Tatoeba
- “They need to get rid of the indigenous population.”Tatoeba
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Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)