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Meaning of aboriginal

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  Aboriginal
      adj 1: of or pertaining to members of the indigenous people of
             Australia; "an Aboriginal rite"
      2: characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region
         from the beginning; "native Americans"; "the aboriginal
         peoples of Australia" [syn: {native}, {aboriginal}] [ant:
         {nonnative}]
      3: 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:
         {aboriginal}, {primal}, {primeval}, {primaeval},
         {primordial}]
      n 1: a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in
           Australia when Europeans arrived [syn: {Aborigine}, {Abo},
           {Aboriginal}, {native Australian}, {Australian Aborigine}]
      2: 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" [syn: {native}, {indigen}, {indigene},
         {aborigine}, {aboriginal}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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