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What is the adjective for indigen?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs indigenize and indigenise which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

indigenous
  1. (chiefly of living things) Born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion. [from 17th c.]
  2. Innate, inborn. [from 19th c.]
  3. Of or relating to the native inhabitants of a land.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Neither is indigenous in the manner that Indians were indigenous to North America.”
      “We all have this indigenous instinct to travel, wander, to disappear.”
      “Cornhole, the indigenous pastime of Cincinnati's west side, is basically a democratized version of horseshoes.”
nonindigenous
  1. Not indigenous; not native to an area.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Members of a second broad, intermediate category are labeled mestizos, cholos, or nonindigenous.”
      “Its postwar collection is solid in nonindigenous Australian art and truly first rate in Aboriginal work.”
      “The main nonindigenous population is of European origin by way of New Zealand.”
indigene
  1. (obsolete) Indigenous.
indigenized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of indigenize
indigenizing
  1. present participle of indigenize
indigenised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of indigenise
indigenising
  1. present participle of indigenise
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