Aboriginal

(adj.) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state; 'aboriginal forests'; 'primal eras before the appearance of life on earth'; 'the forest primeval'; 'primordial matter'; 'primordial forms of life' .

(adj.) of or pertaining to members of the indigenous people of Australia; 'an Aboriginal rite' .

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• The doctrine of the origin of our several domestic races from several aboriginal stocks, has been carried to an absurd extreme by some authors. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Some were refugee cities representing smashed communities, and in these the aboriginal substratum would be missing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The supposed aboriginal stocks must all have been rock-pigeons, that is, they did not breed or willingly perch on trees. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Let us see the natives in their aboriginal condition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• His laugh, in fact, is sometimes almost aboriginal; slapping his hands delightedly on his knees, he rocks back and forth and fairly shouts his pleasure. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This rare event is probably a case of reversion to the long-lost, aboriginal instinct of nidification. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• No one supposes that our choicest productions have been produced by a single variation from the aboriginal stock. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In many cases we do not know what the aboriginal stock was, and so could not tell whether or not nearly perfect reversion had ensued. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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