aborigines

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. plural of aborigine form-of,plural
  2. The original people of a location; originally used of ancient Greek and Roman peoples. plural,plural-only
    — There seems little doubt that the aborigines of Banda were Papuans, and a portion of them still exists in the Ke islands, where they emigrated when the Portuguese first took possession of their native island. It is such people as these that are often looked upon as transitional forms between two very distinct races, like the Malays and Papuans, whereas they are only examples of intermixture.
  3. Indigenous flora and fauna. plural,plural-only
  4. The inhabitants of a location before colonization by the Europeans occurred. plural,plural-only

词源

词源 1
Learned borrowing from Latin aborīginēs.
词源 2
Learned borrowing from Latin aborīginēs.
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