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1. A person born in a particular place or country
   "he is a native of Brazil"
    
2. An indigenous person who was born in a particular place
   "the art of the natives of the northwest coast"
   - indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal
    
3. Indigenous plants and animals

1. Characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin
   "the native North American sugar maple"; "many native artists studied abroad"
    
2. Belonging to one by birth
   "my native land"; "one's native language"
    
3. Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning
   "native Americans"
   - aboriginal
    
4. As found in nature in the elemental form
   "native copper"

Derived forms: natives

See also: autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, connatural, desi [Asia], domestic, endemic, homegrown, inborn, inbred, indigenous, native-born, nativeness, pure

Type of: being, individual, mortal, organism, person, somebody, someone, soul

Antonym: adopted, foreign, nonnative

Encyclopedia: Native