aboriginally

American  

[ab-er-i-juhn-uh-lee] / ˌæb ərˈɪ dʒən ə li /

adverb

1. in or since the earliest time; originally.

2. often Aboriginally, in a way that relates to Aboriginal or other Indigenous peoples, especially of Australia.

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aboriginally

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 Charles Darwin

Stewart makes it quite clear that aboriginally the Kacia had no permanent settlements on the coast itself.

From The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California by Sherburne Friend Cook

But each organism will still retain the general type of structure of the progenitor from which it was aboriginally derived.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 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

Many of these points are of so unimportant or of so singular a nature, that it is extremely improbable that they should have been independently acquired by aboriginally distinct species or races.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Charles Darwin