being vs native

native vs being

being and native both are nouns.

being is not an adjective while native is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
being	Yes	No	No	No
native	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, native is a hyponym of being; that is, native is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than being:

being: a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
native: indigenous plants and animals

Other hyponyms of being include benthos, dwarf, heterotroph, parent, individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul, animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna, flora, plant, plant life, recombinant, conspecific, carrier, denizen, amphidiploid, diploid, haploid, heteroploid, polyploid, animalcule, animalculum, micro-organism, microorganism, aerobe, anaerobe, cross, crossbreed, hybrid, polymorph, congenator, congener, congeneric, relative, plankton, nekton, parasite, host, commensal, myrmecophile, eucaryote, eukaryote, procaryote, prokaryote, zooid, clon, clone, atavist, throwback, individual, mascot, mutant, mutation, sport, variation, postdiluvian, sitter, stander, utterer, vocaliser, vocalizer, endemic, fungus, nonvascular organism, relict, saprophyte, saprophytic organism, saprobe, katharobe, epilith.

being (noun)	native (noun)
a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently	indigenous plants and animals
the state or fact of existing	an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
	a person born in a particular place or country

being (adjective)	native (adjective)
	characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin
	characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning
	belonging to one by birth
	as found in nature in the elemental form

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