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A word autochthonic is an adjective from either a Latin word indigena, meaning indigene, belonging to, aboriginal; and has many applications:
Indigenous peoples, communities and cultures native or even endemic to the territory;
Indigenous (band), a Native American blues-rock band;
Inside biology, indigenous means native to a place or even biota, in direct contrast to any one of many terms meaning non indigen to the place (nonnative, alien, adventive, introduced) and differentiated from either endemic. The mintage that is autochthonic is unique thereto place, noticed naturally nowhere else. The metal money that is autochthonal is indigene, but not unique in the feel that these are likewise native to more locations too. So, the mintage that is indigene to California however noticed naturally around Oregon & Wa likewise (indigen to the West Coast of the United States) is autochthonic to California. The coinage noticed just in the British Isles is forearm to victims islands.
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