non-native en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /nɒnˈneɪtɪv/ (UK)
Etymology
From non- + native.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not native; not indigenous to a particular area; foreign; invasive.
The economy is at full employment and the state is flush with tax revenue but their social media feeds depict a country overrun with “non-native” predators such as Jozef Puska, a Slovak man convicted earlier this month of murdering a teacher, Ashling Murphy, in 2022.
2023 November 24, Rory Carroll, “‘Government is not listening’: anger over immigration spills into riot on Dublin’s streets”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:Use purple three-awn grass to replace the overused, invasive non-native weedy Mexican feather grass (Nassella tenuissima).
2016, Greg Rubin, Lucy Warren, The Drought-Defying California Garden, Portland: Timber Press, published 2021, →ISBN, page 135:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| nonnative | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
non-native speaker · non-native species
Translations (5)
fi ei-syntyperäinen (not indigenous) · fi muukalainen (not indigenous) · ru неме́стный (not indigenous) · de nichteinheimisch (not indigenous) · ja 非ネイティブ (not indigenous)