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What does indigenous mean?

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  1. (chiefly of living things) Born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion. [from 17th c.]
  2. Innate, inborn. [from 19th c.]
  3. Of or relating to the native inhabitants of a land.
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According to Julius Caesar, the Britons further inland than the Belgae believed that they were indigenous.
The clutterings of French-inspired modernism gave way to the single-purpose intensity of a new indigenous outlook on life.
During this time, pandemics of European disease such as smallpox devastated the indigenous populations.
As well as English, England has two other indigenous languages, Cornish and Welsh.
The etymology of Eboracum is uncertain as the language of the indigenous population of the area was never recorded.
Roman expansion along the Rhine and Danube rivers resulted in the incorporation of many indigenous Celtic societies into the Roman Empire.

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