autochthonous
/ɔˈtɑkθənəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.11 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Native to the place where found; indigenous.
adj
Originating where found; found where it originates.
adj
Buried in place, especially of a fossil preserved in its life position without disturbance or disarticulation.
Example Sentences
- "Two of the most celebrated of the evolutionists reject the autochthonous view, for Darwin's Descent of Man and Haeckel's Hist. of Creation consider the American man an emigrant from the old world, whatever way the race may have developed"
- ""Forms or images of a collective nature which occur practically all over the earth as constituents of myths and at the same time as autochthonous, individual products of unconscious origin" (C. G. Jung, Psychology and Religion [Collected Works, vol. 11; New York and London, 1958], par. 88.)"
- "Only human beings could live on this world and know that they were not autochthonous but had stemmed from Earthmen—and yet did the Spacers really know it or did they simply put it out of their mind?"
- "It analyzes exceptionalism in terms of institutional authority, adjudicative method, and substantive doctrine, and it shows how exceptionalism derives from the idea of autochthonous Native sovereignty."
- "When, in 1858, Joseph Lister amputated the right leg of a six-year-old girl suffering from gangrene, he noted that the autochthonous blood clot extended down the anterior tibial artery as far as the commencement of the gangrene."
- "Death and burial may be simultaneous, resulting in a preserved snapshot of an autochthonous assemblage that may be compared directly with present day ecosystems."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɔˈtɑkθənəs/
- British English: /ɔːˈtɒkθənəs/