aboriginally
Americanadverb
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in or since the earliest time; originally.
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often Aboriginally, in a way that relates to Aboriginal or other Indigenous peoples, especially of Australia.
Example Sentences
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The almost entire absence of associated grasses, which forms so remarkable a feature in the vegetation of this island, may perhaps be accounted for by the land having been aboriginally covered with forest-trees.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
A man cannot, however, deviate at once so widely and so spontaneously in his impulses from the rest of the world in which he himself lives without possessing an aboriginally abnormal temperament.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Havelock Ellis
The face has been the chief object of attention, though, when man aboriginally went naked, the whole surface of his body would have been attended to.
From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin
Since the pipe had been broken at that end, it may have been repaired aboriginally with such a cord.
From A Burial Cave in Baja California The Palmer Collection, 1887 by William C. Massey
On the view here given, it may be asked, Why have the species which were aboriginally twiners been converted in so many groups into leaf- climbers or tendril-bearers?
From The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Charles Darwin
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