« Good Words: August 2015 | Main | Good Words: July 2017 »

Autochthonous

autochthonous [aw-tok-thuh-nuhs]

-adj

1. aboriginal; indigenous
2. of or relating to ideas that arise independently of the individual's own train of thought and seem instead to have some alien or external agency as their source
3. (of rocks, minerals, etc.) formed in the region where found