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Definition indigenous in American English

indigenous adjective

adjective
/ɪnˈdɪdʒənəs/
1

indigenous people lived in a place for a very long time before other people came to live there

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2

indigenous plants and animals belong to a region because they developed there

Definition indigenous in American English