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.”

   “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 warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main.”

2. Living in a land before colonization by foreigners.

   “Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase to the Leviathan?”

   “Had a vast knowledge of the aboriginal tribes; was, in spite of his juniority, the greatest authority on the aboriginal Gullals.”

3. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal
4. (not-comparable)Of or pertaining to Australian Aboriginal peoples, or their languages.

   “Academics who study Aboriginal languages are [...] contributing to Man’s search for knowledge, a search that interests most people even if they are not personally involved in it.”

   “I am under no illusions about my mixed-race status; I know I am mixed-race, but with the Aboriginal population being only 3 per cent, with my family being survivors of genocide, I have made my decision.”

5. (alt-of, not-comparable)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.”

2. (alt-of)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.”

3. An Aboriginal inhabitant of Australia or other land.
4. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of aboriginal.

name

1. Any of the native languages spoken by Australian aborigines.