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indigen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
in-di-gen
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An indigene or native.

noun

A plant known to be indigenous to a region, rather than a cultigen.

Etymology

Variant of indigene. In a botanical sense first used by Liberty Hyde Bailey in 1918.

Inflected Forms

indigens (plural)

Synonyms

native indigene aborigine aboriginal

Antonyms

cultigen

Questions

What does indigen mean?
An indigene or native.
Where does indigen come from?
Variant of indigene. In a botanical sense first used by Liberty Hyde Bailey in 1918.

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