[
US
/ˈnɑˈneɪtɪv/
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ADJECTIVE
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not being or composed of aborigines
the nonnative population of South Africa - of plants or animals originating in a part of the world other than where they are growing
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of persons born in another area or country than that lived in
our large nonnative population
How To Use nonnative In A Sentence
- Several nonnative noxious weeds have invaded stickseed habitat and threaten to out-compete the stickseed for the available nutrients.
- Find out which of these are native plants and which are exotic (or nonnative).
- In the western provinces of the Roman Empire, Latin was used by native and nonnative speakers alike for tax collecting, commerce, entertainment, rituals, and ceremonies, and in the all-important Roman military. The English Is Coming!
- our large nonnative population
- Until this year, the official policy of the Departamento de Medio Ambiente, Catalonia's environmental regulatory agency, stated that all nonnative species caught in the region's waters should be killed, including the wels catfish. Spain's Ebro River Is Big Catfish Country
- These and so many others are cases of adoption by nonnative users of English, not of imposition. The English Is Coming!
- As growing numbers of nonnative speakers of Global English bend English around their own word orders, at least a few could gain wide usage. The English Is Coming!
- How might nonnative speakers remedy the s trouble in English? The English Is Coming!
- the nonnative population of South Africa
- Separating the large fields are hedgerows of native and nonnative woody plants.
