aboriginal

Noun · Adjective

Synonyms: Aborigine Abo Aboriginal native Australian Australian Aborigine native indigen indigene aborigine primal primeval primaeval

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrivedSynonyms: Aborigine Abo Aboriginal native Australian Australian Aborigine
an indigenous person who was born in a particular place“the art of the natives of the northwest coast”“the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students”Synonyms: native indigen indigene aborigine

Adjective (3)

of or pertaining to members of the indigenous people of Australia“an Aboriginal rite”Synonyms: Aboriginal
characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning“native Americans”“the aboriginal peoples of Australia”Synonyms: native
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”Synonyms: primal primeval primaeval primordial

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

2.Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindu of aboriginal blood. [1913 Webster]

Aboriginal \Ab`o*rig"i*nal\, n.

1.An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines. [1913 Webster]

2.An animal or a plant native to the region. [1913 Webster]

It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands.— Darwin.[1913 Webster]