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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024au•toch•tho•nous (ô tok′thə nəs),USA pronunciation adj. - Ecology, Anthropologypertaining to autochthons; aboriginal;
indigenous (opposed to heterochthonous). - Pathology
- found in the part of the body in which it originates, as a cancerous lesion.
- found in a locality in which it originates, as an infectious disease.
- Psychologyof or pertaining 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.
[Geol.](of rocks, minerals, etc.) formed in the region where found. Cf. allochthonous. Also, au•toch′tho•nal, au•toch•thon•ic (ô′tok thon′ik).USA pronunciation - autochthon + -ous 1795–1805
au•toch′tho•nism, au•toch′tho•ny, n. au•toch′tho•nous•ly, adv. au•toch′tho•nous•ness, n. |