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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Did the three species just named, like their close allies, the several species of Utricularia, aboriginally possess bladders on their rhizomes, which they afterwards lost, acquiring in their place utriculiferous leaves?
From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles
A total of 268 converts would imply a population of at least 500 persons at the time of conversion and probably more aboriginally.
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Cook, Sherburne F.
To believe that man was aboriginally civilised and then suffered utter degradation in so many regions, is to take a pitiably low view of human nature.
From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles
Is it not probable that guest-flies were aboriginally gall-makers, and bear the same relation to them which Apathus probably does to Bombus?
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
There is no evidence that man was aboriginally endowed with the ennobling belief in the existence of an Omnipotent God.
From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles
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