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NONNATIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of plants or animals originating in a part of the world other than where they are growing
Classified under:
Similar:
foreign; strange (relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of persons born in another area or country than that lived in
Example:
our large nonnative population
Synonyms:
foreign-born; nonnative
Classified under:
Similar:
foreign; strange (relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Not being or composed of aborigines
Example:
the nonnative population of South Africa
Classified under:
Adjectives
Antonym:
native (characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning)
