autochthon

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Body Snatchers who pump into any territory under their domain an unceasing stream of racially and culturally unrelated immigrants, rob the autochthon inhabitants of a part of their identity.

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  1. noun One of the earliest known inhabitants of a place; an aborigine.
  2. noun Ecology An indigenous plant or animal.

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  • The Indian apprehension is understandable because given the length of time the terrorists were able to hold out against special forces and the extent of mayhem they caused, extensive autochthon involvement is more than probable. —  Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
  • Body Snatchers who pump into any territory under their domain an unceasing stream of racially and culturally unrelated immigrants, rob the autochthon inhabitants of a part of their identity. —  The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
  • With the passage of time, the level of immigrants had witnessed substantive amelioration, the rift between the immigrants and the autochthon populations grew wider and wider, and seems to have posed difficult problems to the governments and the societies in many European countries. —  Gates of Vienna
  • The presence on plants and animals of any autochthon-morphological characters means death to Darwinism, because these can never be explained by means of selection and struggle for existence Eimer is too much inclined towards the other extreme; he does not admit the existence of adaptive-morphological characteristics. —  At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers
  • He would smile as would the autochthon. —  Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
 

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  1. Greek autokhthōn : auto-, auto- + khthōn, earth; see dhghem- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin autochthones, plural, from Greek αὐτόχθωυ, plural αὐτόχθονες, aborigines, primitive inhabitants, literally sprung from the land itself (it was the belief of the ancient Athenians and some other Greeks that they sprang originally from the soil on which they lived), from αὐτός, self, + χθών, land, earth.
 

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