native: implies birth or origin in a place or region and may suggest compatibility with it: a ~ New Yorker. native land/tongue/Americans/animals and plants祖国/母语/最早居住在美洲的印地安人/原生动植物
indigenous: applies to species or races and adds to native the implication of not having been introduced from elsewhere: maize is ~ to America. 又如indigenous culture/language/plant/jet fighter当(本)地文化/语言/植物/国产战斗机 物种species人种race maize玉米玉蜀黍
endemic: implies being indigenous and peculiar to or restricted in a region: edelweiss is ~ in the Alps. (endemic有2个意思 1、特产的地方的growing or existing only in a certain place,如seven kinds of grapes are endemic in/to Tulufan吐鲁番有7种葡萄是特产,endemic wildlife特有野生动物,如the disease is endemic in/to this area地方病 2、普遍的common,如a distrust of strangers is endemic in/to this community社区居民普遍对陌生人不信任,如the endemic problem of racism/street crime普遍存在的种族主义/街头犯罪问题, 如malaria/corruption/polio is endemic in many countries疟疾/腐败/小儿麻痹症在许多国家普遍/流行)
aboriginal: implies having no known race preceding in occupancy of the region: the ~ people of Australia.