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Webster 1913 Edition


Indigene

In′di-gene

,
Noun.
[L.
indigena
: cf. F.
indigène
. See
Indigenous
.]
One born in a country; an aboriginal animal or plant; an autochthon.
Evelyn. Tylor.

Webster 1828 Edition


Indigene

IN'DIGENE

,
Noun.
[L. indigena; in or ind, and geno, gigno, to beget, or to be born.] One born in a country; a native animal or plant.

Definition 2024


indigene

indigene

See also: indigène

English

Adjective

indigene (comparative more indigene, superlative most indigene)

  1. (obsolete) Indigenous.

Noun

indigene (plural indigenes)

  1. An indigenous person; a native.
    • 2005, Christopher Hitchens, "André Malraux: One Man's Fate", New York Times Book Review, 10 Apr 2005:
      The price for all this chutzpah was that Malraux then had to take up the cause of the colonial indigenes as if it really mattered to him.

Translations


Italian

Adjective

indigene

  1. feminine plural of indigeno

Noun

indigene f

  1. plural of indigena

Latin

Adjective

indigene

  1. vocative masculine singular of indigenus