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Autochthonous
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Meaning
Adj
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Native to the place where found; indigenous.
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In Biology & Medicine:
Originating where found; found where it originates.
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In Geology:
Buried
in place
, especially of a
fossil
preserved
in its life
position
without
disturbance
or disarticulation.
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Antonyms
Allochthonous
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Ancestral
Asiatic
Benthic
Turkic
Inuit
Amerindian
Archaeal
Austronesian
Monophyletic
Erosive
Unique
Terrestrial
Distinctive
Ethnic
Iberian
Endophytic
Zoonotic
Pathogenic
Nonnative
Emigrant
Arboreal
Abiotic
Ethnos
Unicellular
Inhomogeneous
Sworn Virgins
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