aboriginal

Etymology

See Aboriginal.

adj

1. First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.
   Green in the Church-yard, beautiful and green; / […] / And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers. 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Longman et al., page 277
2. Living in a land before colonization by the Europeans.
   Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase to the Leviathan? 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 2
3. Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal

noun

1. An animal or plant native to a region.
   It may be welldoubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands. 1839, Charles Darwin, Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle
2. Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal
   Every one of the groups of islands in the Pacific, many of them only a few days' sail from Australia, have their own customs, religious, political and social, and yet Australia has none, and the aboriginals have imbibed nothing from their intercourse with other nationalities. 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 244