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Definition of Allochthonous

1. Adjective. Of rocks, deposits, etc.; found in a place other than where they and their constituents were formed.

Definition of Allochthonous

1. Adjective. Originating in a place other than where it is found. ¹

2. Adjective. (geology) Buried or found in a place remote from the site of formation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Allochthonous

1. Derived from outside a system, such as the leaves of terrestrial plants that fall into a stream. Compare: autochthonous. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Allochthonous

Literary usage of Allochthonous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Glimpses of the Cosmos by Lester Frank Ward (1918)
"The Autochthonous or allochthonous Origin of the Goal and ... and " autochthony" both occur in the dictionaries, but " allochthonous" ..."

2. The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde) by Eduard Suess (1906)
"In like manner Gumbel distinguishes autochthonous measures, ie those which have been formed in place; and allochthonous measures, those which have been ..."

3. Fossil Botany: Being an Introduction to Palaeophytology from the Standpoint by Hermann Solms-Laubach, Henry Edward Fowler Garnsey (1891)
"The view intermediate between these two, that the mode of formation varied as in the case of the lignites and was sometimes allochthonous, ..."

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