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autochthonous in Portuguese

autochthonous in Portuguese is autóctone — autochthonous means belonging naturally to the place where it is found.

autochthonous in Portuguese

autóctone
adj

What does "autochthonous" mean?

  1. adj Belonging naturally to the place where it is found.
    "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?"
  2. adj Having come into being in the very place where it is now found.
  3. adj Describes a fossil that stayed exactly where the creature died, without being moved or broken apart afterwards.
    "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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autochthonous 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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What is "autochthonous" in Portuguese?
"autochthonous" in Portuguese is autóctone. autochthonous means: Belonging naturally to the place where it is found.
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