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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Hence it might be argued that the females had aboriginally been furnished with well-developed spurs, but that these had subsequently been lost either through disuse or natural selection.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) by Darwin, Charles
On the whole, the writer feels that the evidence is insufficient to warrant placing the Luechas in the coast ranges as a group aboriginally native to that area.
From The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California by Cook, Sherburne Friend
For reasons stated previously the author does not believe that the Tarquines occupied this spot aboriginally.
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Cook, Sherburne F.
But each organism still retains the general type of structure of the progenitor from which it was aboriginally derived.
From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles
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 Massey, William C.
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