indigenous

In a sentence

Six example sentences with indigenous, each labelled with its topic.

• The park replanted only indigenous shrubs, pulling out the imported species that had crowded the hillside for thirty years.

  Environment

• The stew uses an indigenous pepper that grows nowhere else, which is why the dish never travels well.

  Cooking

• Botanists mapped every indigenous orchid on the island, then compared them with the varieties traders brought ashore after 1800.

  Science

• The lodge is built from indigenous stone quarried a mile away, so its walls match the outcrops behind it.

  Architecture

• The festival features indigenous instruments, flutes and drums made from the same reeds and gourds that grow along the river.

  Music

• The pigments are indigenous, ground from ochre and charcoal gathered in the same valley where the paintings were made.

  Art

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