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What does aborigine mean?

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Noun
  1. An native inhabitant of a country; a member of the original people. [First attested in the early 19th century.]
  2. (plural) The native flora and fauna of an area. [First attested in the late 17th century.]
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David Jones has studied aborigine culture in depth and produced sculptures on certain sites previously marked by this people.
Their homes will, as a rule, for sheer uncleanliness, bear comparison with the dwelling of an Australian aborigine.
She is an aborigine, sprung from the soil, yet close to the soil, and impossible to lift from the soil.
It was the way he said the words, like a white trader offering his aborigine captors glass beads to set him free.
Life expectancy for an aborigine is 21 years less than for a white Australian man. All this has opened up a tough mood in Canberra.
Just after the capture, an aborigine told his tribe that his death was at hand.

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