Definition of "autochthon" [au•toch•thon]

• One of the earliest known inhabitants of a place; an aborigine. (noun)
• Ecology An indigenous plant or animal. (noun)

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• "On Myral, where I had spent the last ten years, only a little of such status attached to the largest autochthon — not surprising for a creature whose name is a contraction of "shit-eating quadruped.""
• "Then Chee darted between those legs, tumbled the autochthon on his tocus and bounded onward."
• "He was an autochthon, a handsome creature by any standards."