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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Aboriginal \Ab`o*rig"i*nal\, a. [See {Aborigines}.] 1. First original; indigenous; primitive; native; as the aboriginal tribes of America. ``Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf.'' --Wordsworth. 2. Of or pertaining to aborigines; as a Hindoo of aboriginal blood. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Aboriginal \Ab`o*rig"i*nal\, n. 1. An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines. 2. An animal or a plant native to the region. It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands. --Darwin. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: aboriginal adj 1: being or composed of people inhabiting a region from the beginning; "native Americans"; "the aboriginal peoples of Australia" [syn: {native}] [ant: {nonnative}] 2: 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" [syn: {primal}, {primeval}, {primaeval}, {primordial}] n : a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived [syn: {Aborigine}, {Abo}, {Aboriginal}, {native Australian}, {Australian Aborigine}]
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