autochthonal
Example Sentences
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The present inhabitants are not autochthonal, no more than we are the first settlers of this country.
From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Wild, Joseph
All at once, sudden as though autochthonal, there appeared meadow-larks and blackbirds: dead weeds or man-erected posts serving in lieu of trees as vantage points from which to sing.
From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.
