kotoperäinen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- autochthonous adj Belonging naturally to the place where it is found.
- endemic adj Native to, or regularly found only in, a particular place.
- native noun Someone who was born in a particular place.
Senses
kotoperäinen is used for these senses in English:
- autochthonous Native to the place where found; indigenous.
- endemic (especially of diseases) Prevalent in a particular area or region, persistent within a population.
- native (biology, of a species) Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans.
autochthonous — full definition
- adj Belonging naturally to the place where it is found.
- adj Having come into being in the very place where it is now found.
- adj Describes a fossil that stayed exactly where the creature died, without being moved or broken apart afterward.
endemic — full definition
- adj Native to, or regularly found only in, a particular place.
- adj Regularly occurring within a particular community or region, such as a disease that never fully disappears.
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