Native \Na"tive\ (n[=a]"t[i^]v), a. [F. natif, L. nativus, fr.
nasci, p. p. natus. See Nation, and cf.
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Native \Na"tive\, n.
1. One who, or that which, is born in a place or country
referred to; a denizen by birth; an animal, a fruit, or
vegetable, produced in a certain region; as, a native of
France; the natives are restless.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
2. (Stock Breeding) Any of the live stock found in a region,
as distinguished from such as belong to pure and distinct
imported breeds. [U.S.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
native
adj 1: being such by origin; "the native North American sugar
maple"; "many native artists studied abroad" [ant: foreign]
2: belonging to one by birth; "my native land"; "one's native
language" [ant: adopted]
3: being or composed of people inhabiting a region from the
beginning; "native Americans"; "the aboriginal peoples of
Australia" [syn: aboriginal] [ant: nonnative]
4: as found in nature in the elemental form; "native copper"
5: normally existing at birth; "mankind's connatural sense of
the good" [syn: connatural, inborn, inbred]
n : a person who was born in a particular place; an indigenous
person [syn: indigen, indigene]
WordNet (r) 2.0
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "native":
aboriginal, aborigine, agrarian, arcadian, artless, atavistic,
autochthon, autochthonous, basic, best, bodily, born, bucolic,
by birth, candid, citizen, clan, coeval, congenital, connatal,
connate, connatural, constitutional, crude, direct, domestic,
earliest inhabitant, endemic, ethnic, exclusive, first,
first comer, genetic, genuine, hereditary, home, homebred,
homegrown, homespun, honest, impure, in the blood, in the raw,
inartificial, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigene, indigenous,
indwelling, inhabitant, inherent, inherited, inland, innate,
instinctive, instinctual, internal, intestine, intrinsic, local,
local yokel, municipal, natal, national, native to, native-born,
natural, natural to, naturelike, organic, original, pastoral,
physical, primal, primitive, primitive settler, pristine,
provincial, raw, resident, run-of-mine, rural, straightforward,
temperamental, tribal, unacquired, unadorned, unaffected,
unartificial, unassuming, uncultivated, undesigning, undisguising,
undissembling, undissimulating, undomesticated, unembellished,
unfeigning, ungraded, unpretending, unpretentious, unsorted,
unspoiled, unsullied, untouched, unvarnished, vernacular, virgin,
virginal
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
aboriginal, connatural, inborn, inbred, indigen, indigene
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