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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[See

First; original; indigenous; primitive; native;

as, the

aboriginal

tribes of America

“Mantled o’er with aboriginal turf.”

Wordsworth.

Of or pertaining to aborigines;

as, a Hindu of

aboriginal

blood

Noun.

An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines.

An animal or a plant native to the region.

It may well be doubted whether this frog is an

aboriginal

of these islands.

Darwin.

Adj.

[L. ab and origo, origin. See Origin.]

First; original; primitive; aboriginal people are the first inhabitants of a country.

Aboriginal tribes of America.

Adj.

an original, or primitive inhabitant. The first settlers in a country are called aboriginals; as the Celts in Europe, and Indians in America.