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autochthonous

ADJECTIVE
  1. of rocks, deposits, etc.; found where they and their constituents were formed
  2. originating where it is found
    the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan
    the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo
    autochthonous rocks and people and folktales
    endemic folkways

How To Use autochthonous In A Sentence

  • It is, however, appropriate to conclude from this evidence that the maternal lineages of the present-day Indian populations are largely autochthonous, that is, unique to India, and very, very old.
  • Although, he was actually autochthonous to Brooklyn, not California.
  • Altogether, this indicates that sestonic components of autochthonous origin should be closer to Redfield proportions in eutrophic than in oligotrophic lakes.
  • b. - by consecuence 85 % are not and a huge porcentage are "autochthonous" and the others are a mix of indigenous and spanish descendants. so even if hollywood represent Mexicans like domestic servants, gardeners and delinquents is very important precise what part of this "society" belongs to. Page 2
  • Instead, the proportion between allochthonous and autochthonous carbon in the crustacean zooplankton was consistent with a rather conservative use of the energy mobilized by bacterioplankton and phytoplankton in the lakes.
  • The rock units that crop out within the windows all show some effects of Caledonian deformation, and are therefore interpreted as exposing parautochthonous rather than strictly autochthonous foreland.
  • The problem of this hypothesis is that it requires the river dolphins of the Amazon, Ganges, Yangtze, etc. to all be autochthonous and essentially unrelated, since those river systems are separated by good span of geography.
  • Whereas the Church in Brazil has had some awareness of this situation, it has been unable to experiment at the national level with autochthonous and creative forms of cultural expressions in liturgical life.
  • Assemblages of plant fossils that are preserved close to where their parent-plants originally grew are called autochthonous; assemblages that have been transported are referred to as allochthonous.
  • Being thrust onto the autochthonous Central Carpathian Basin, its original basement is unknown.
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