Adjective : aboriginal customs. ,the aboriginal people of Tahiti. From Dictionary.com.
Does one just one day wake up and want to aboriginally slaughter someone?. From Wordnik.com. [MY BAD, NOW IT’S TOTALLY ORIGINAL] Reference
AGB: Does one just one day wake up and want to aboriginally slaughter someone?. From Wordnik.com. [MY BAD, NOW IT’S TOTALLY ORIGINAL] Reference
The almost entire absence of associated grasses, which forms so remarkable a feature in the vegetation of this island, may perhaps be accounted for by the land having been aboriginally covered with forest-trees. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
Yet this must have been the case if the races of man are descended from several aboriginally distinct species. From Wordnik.com. [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference
Drosera, it seems scarcely possible that each tentacle could have aboriginally existed as a prolongation of the leaf. From Wordnik.com. [Insectivorous Plants] Reference
In some cases the intercrossing of aboriginally distinct species appears to have played an important part in the origin of our breeds. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference
Is it not probable that guest-flies were aboriginally gall-makers, and bear the same relation to them which Apathus probably does to Bombus?. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
Opened in July 2007, Blackfoot Crossing is the world's largest Blackfoot exhibit and the largest aboriginally owned and operated tourism attraction in Canada. From Wordnik.com. [First Perspective News] Reference
In some cases, I do not doubt that the intercrossing of species, aboriginally distinct, has played an important part in the origin of our domestic productions. From Wordnik.com. [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference
˜inner™ and ˜outer™ are not coefficients with which experiences come to us aboriginally stamped, but are rather results of later classification performed by us for particular needs. From Wordnik.com. [Neutral Monism] Reference
That many breeds produced by man have to a large extent the character of natural species is shown by the inextricable doubts whether many of them are varieties or aboriginally distinct species. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference
That many breeds produced by man have to a large extent the character of natural species, is shown by the inextricable doubts whether many of them are varieties or aboriginally distinct species. From Wordnik.com. [XV. Recapitulation and Conclusion] Reference
A man cannot, however, deviate at once so widely and so spontaneously in his impulses from the rest of the world in which he himself lives without possessing an aboriginally abnormal temperament. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy] Reference
It is well known that cats dislike wetting their feet, owing, it is probable, to their having aboriginally inhabited the dry country of Egypt; and when they wet their feet they shake them violently. From Wordnik.com. [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference
But to extend it so far as to suppose that species, aboriginally as distinct as carriers, tumblers, pouters, and fantails now are, should yield offspring perfectly fertile inter se, would be rash in the extreme. From Wordnik.com. [I. Variation under Domestication. Breeds of the Domestic Pigeon, Their Differences and Origin] Reference
Did the three species just named, like their close allies, the several species of Utricularia, aboriginally possess bladders on their rhizomes, which they afterwards lost, acquiring in their place utriculiferous leaves?. From Wordnik.com. [Insectivorous Plants] Reference
This must be admitted as true, for the domestic races of many animals and plants have been ranked by some competent judges as the descendants of aboriginally distinct species, and by other competent judges as mere varieties. From Wordnik.com. [I. Variation under Domestication. Character of Domestic Varieties; Difficulty of Distinguishing between Varieties and Species; Origin of Domestic Varieties from One or More Species] Reference
But to extend the hypothesis so far as to suppose that species, aboriginally as distinct as carriers, tumblers, pouters, and fantails now are, should yield offspring perfectly fertile, inter se, seems to me rash in the extreme. From Wordnik.com. [On the origin of species] Reference
I can see no reason, why a man, or other animal, may not have been aboriginally produced by other laws; & that all these laws may have been expressly designed by an omniscient Creator, who foresaw every future event & consequence. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News from Ekklesia] Reference
We have evidence that the barren island of Ascension aboriginally possessed under half-a-dozen flowering plants; yet many have become naturalised on it, as they have on New Zealand and on every other oceanic island which can be named. From Wordnik.com. [On the origin of species] Reference
We have evidence that the barren island of Ascension aboriginally possessed less than half-a-dozen flowering plants; yet many species have now become naturalised on it, as they have in New Zealand and on every other oceanic island which can be named. From Wordnik.com. [XIII. Geographical Distribution-Continued. On the Inhabitants of Oceanic Islands] Reference
For it is not at all unusual for animals to retain, more or less perfectly, during early youth, and subsequently to lose, characters which were aboriginally possessed by their adult progenitors, and which are still retained by distinct species, their near relations. From Wordnik.com. [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference
For when it is stated, for instance, that certain South American indigenous domestic dogs do not readily unite with European dogs, the explanation which will occur to every one, and probably the true one, is that they are descended from aboriginally distinct species. From Wordnik.com. [IX. Hybridism. Fertility of Varieties When Crossed, and of Their Mongrel Offspring, Not Universal] Reference
I think this must be admitted, when we find that there are hardly any domestic races, either amongst animals or plants, which have not been ranked by competent judges as mere varieties, and by other competent judges as the descendants of aboriginally distinct species. From Wordnik.com. [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference
I think this must be admitted, when we find that there are hardly any domestic races, either amongst animals or plants, which have not been ranked by some competent judges as mere varieties, and by other competent judges as the descendants of aboriginally distinct species. From Wordnik.com. [On the origin of species] Reference
But besides the improbability of a bird having long ago become extinct in these large and luxuriant islands, it appears (as we shall presently see) that the turkey degenerates in India, and this fact indicates that it was not aboriginally an inhabitant of the lowlands of the tropics. From Wordnik.com. [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference
On the idea of double creations it would be strange if the same species of several plants should have been created in Australia and Europe; and no one instance of the same species of mammifer having been created, or aboriginally existing, in two as nearly remote and equally isolated points. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844] Reference
Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11] Reference
A little greater force in the power of inheritance would, according to this rule, raise the soft-shelled pine-tree into the dignity of an aboriginally created species. From Wordnik.com. [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference
"Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charles Darwin] Reference
George, whom he loved -- aboriginally. From Wordnik.com. [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference
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