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native
/ˈneɪtɪv/ adjectiveDefinition
BORN IN [always before noun] › Your native town or country is the place where you were born: It was a custom in his native Algeria. She is a native-born Texan.
LANGUAGE [always before noun] › Your native language is the first language you learn.
PEOPLE [always before noun] › relating to the people who lived in a country first, before other people took control of it: the native inhabitants/population
ANIMALS AND PLANTS › Native animals or plants live or grow naturally in a place, and have not been brought from somewhere else: a large bird native to Europe
(Definition of native adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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