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adjective
- 1. not indigenous or native to a particular place.
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A non-native plant or animal is one that lives or grows in a place where it did not originally live or grow: The river was stocked with a nonnative species of trout that is now preying on other fish. The beetle is a non-native insect responsible for destroying entire groves of ash trees.
a. of a plant or animal : living or growing in a place that is not the location of its natural occurrence. a non-native fish species. … overgrazing causes grasslands to give way to sagebrush, mesquite and non-native exotic grasses, environmentalists contend. Doug McInnis. b. : not born or raised in the place where a particular language is spoken.
Non-native definition: of or relating to a language that is not the first language acquired by a person. See examples of NON-NATIVE used in a sentence.
A person who is not a native of a particular place or country.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
Definition of non-native adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
What are non-native species? Do they threaten biodiversity? Is the antipathy toward exotics a misguided prejudice against the foreign? Are there legitimate reasons to prefer native species?
Definitions of nonnative. adjective. of persons born in another area or country than that lived in. “our large nonnative population” synonyms: foreign-born. foreign, strange. relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world. adjective.
a of an animal or plant : living or growing in a place that is not the region where it naturally lives and grows. Irrigation allows non-native plants to grow in the desert. Non-native species of insects are having devastating effects on local crops.
Non-native definition: Not indigenous to a particular area; foreign ; invasive .
What does the word non-native mean? There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the word non-native. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. See meaning & use. How common is the word non-native? About 0.4 occurrences per million words in modern written English. See frequency. How is the word non-native pronounced?
