a. [f. as prec. + -OUS.] = AUTOCHTHONIC.
1805. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., III. 309. If the English have this great predilection for autochthonous bread and butter.
1860. Sat. Rev., X. 149/1. Most of them [the Red Indians] believe themselves to be autochthonous.
1879. B. Taylor, Stud. Germ. Lit., 13. A native autochthonous German literature.
b. transf. in Path.; (see quot.)
1876. trans. Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 189. An autochthonous or primitive thrombus is one which remains confined in the part in which it first arose, especially in the heart.
