Definition of "aboriginal" []

• Having existed in a region from the beginning: aboriginal forests. See Synonyms at native. (adjective)
• Of or relating to aborigines. (adjective)
• Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of Australia. (adjective)
• An aborigine. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The word aboriginal means “with the origin”—in other words, “awareness of the original intention” of life."
• "{179b} The term aboriginal is here suggested, as more correct than spontaneous, the one hitherto generally used."
• "I find it ironic that you are so critical of a brief reuter’s newsfeed even making an erroneous assumption of the term aboriginal while unquestioningly accepting de-facto editorials from the Taipei Times."