Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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native | Yes | Yes | No | No |
nonnative | No | Yes | No | No |
native (noun) | nonnative (noun) |
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indigenous plants and animals | |
an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | |
a person born in a particular place or country |
native (adjective) | nonnative (adjective) |
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characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin | not being or composed of aborigines |
characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning | of persons born in another area or country than that lived in |
belonging to one by birth | of plants or animals originating in a part of the world other than where they are growing |
as found in nature in the elemental form |