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autochthonous

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13 lettersPronunciation /ɔːˈtɒkθənəs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted achhnooosttuuStarts with AEnds with S0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. of rocks, deposits, etc.; found where they and their constituents were formed

Word origin

Literally, “native to the soil”; from autochthon + -ous.

Used in a sentence

  • Only human beings could live on this world and know that they were not autochthonous but had stemmed from Earthmen—and yet did the Spacers really know it or did they simply put it out of their mind?
  • It analyzes exceptionalism in terms of institutional authority, adjudicative method, and substantive doctrine, and it shows how exceptionalism derives from the idea of autochthonous Native sovereignty.
  • Death and burial may be simultaneous, resulting in a preserved snapshot of an autochthonous assemblage that may be compared directly with present day ecosystems.

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