Hypertext Webster Gateway: "aboriginal"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal
blood.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Aboriginal \Ab`o*rig"i*nal\, n.
1. An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines.
2. An animal or a plant native to the region.
It may well be doubted whether this frog is an
aboriginal of these islands. --Darwin.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
aboriginal
adj 1: being or composed of people inhabiting a region from the
beginning; "native Americans"; "the aboriginal peoples
of Australia" [syn: {native}] [ant: {nonnative}]
2: 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"
[syn: {primal}, {primeval}, {primaeval}, {primordial}]
n : a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in
Australia when Europeans arrived [syn: {Aborigine}, {Abo},
{Aboriginal}, {native Australian}, {Australian Aborigine}]
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