The autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The present inhabitants are not autochthonal, no more than we are the first settlers of this country. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
The eight hundred thousand Gónds of the Góndwana are supposed to be members of the great autochthonal family of ancient India. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
Anymore than building a city on land that was previously only being used for seasonal hunting bestows autochthonal precedent on that city's inhabitants. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: NATIVE SPEAKER.] Reference
These Sontals reminded me of the Gónds whom I had seen, though they seemed to be far manlier representatives of the autochthonal races of India than the former. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
We passed Cabul merchants peddling their dried fruit on shaggy-haired camels; to these succeeded, in more lonesome portions of the road, small groups of Korkas, wretched remnants of one of the autochthonal families of Central India -- even lower in the scale of civilization than the Gónds, among whom they are found; and to these the richly-caparisoned elephants of some wealthy. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference
How intolerant not to appreciate being called "victim" and "potato", standard invectives patriotic German Muslims are fond of hurling toward their autochthonal compatriots. From Wordnik.com. [The Editrix' Roncesvalles] Reference
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