OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 191

aboriginal

/ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.n̩.l̩/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
aborigen • indígena
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.
Tashtego's long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding eyes— […] all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warri…