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heterochthonous

adj

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros, “other, different”) (corresponding to hetero-) + χθών (khthṓn, “earth, soil”) + -ous.

  1. derived from ἕτερος — “other, different”

Definitions

  1. Not indigenous

    Not indigenous; foreign.

    • In the view of Johnson and Baldwin, the only sovereignty over Indians having any legal significance was the sovereignty imposed from without – the heterochthonous sovereignty of the United States and the individual states.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for heterochthonous. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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