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Definition of Autochthonic
1. Adjective. Originating where it is found. "The Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan"
Similar to: Native
Derivative terms: Autochthony, Indigenousness
Definition of Autochthonic
1. Adjective. existing where it was formed or born; native, aboriginal, indigenous ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Autochthonic
Literary usage of Autochthonic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the New World Called America by Edward John Payne (1899)
"We are therefore precluded from regarding the primitive man of America as even
possibly autochthonic. Had such been the case, inferior anthropoid animals, ..."
2. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1915)
"The northern fauna successively invaded the tropical and southern continents and
swept before it nearly all their autochthonic faunae. ..."
3. English Synonyms and Antonyms: With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald (1914)
"autochthonic (from Gr. autos, self, and chthon, earth) signifies sprung from the
earth, especially from the soil of one's native land. ..."
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