native : Idioms & Phrases


alaska native

  • noun a member or descendant of any of the aboriginal peoples of Alaska
    Alaska Native; Alaskan Native.
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alaskan native

  • noun a member or descendant of any of the aboriginal peoples of Alaska
    Alaska Native; Alaskan Native.
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native alaskan

  • noun a member or descendant of any of the aboriginal peoples of Alaska
    Alaska Native; Alaskan Native.
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native american

  • noun any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
    Amerindian.
  • adjective of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages
    Indian; Amerind; Amerindic.
    • Native American religions
    • Indian arrowheads
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Native American party

  • . See under American, a.
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native australian

  • noun a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived
    Aborigine; Aboriginal; Australian Aborigine; Abo.
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Native bear

  • noun sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat; feeds on eucalyptus leaves and bark
    Phascolarctos cinereus; koala; koala bear; kangaroo bear.
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  • (Zoöl.), the koala.
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native beech

  • noun tall Australian timber tree yielding tough hard wood used for staves etc
    Flindersia australis; flindosy; flindosa.
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Native bread

  • (Bot.), a large underground fungus, of Australia (Mylitta australis), somewhat resembling a truffle, but much larger.
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native cat

  • noun carnivorous arboreal cat-like marsupials of Australia and Tasmania
    Dasyurus viverrinus.
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native cranberry

  • noun small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia
    Styphelia humifusum; ground-berry; groundberry; cranberry heath; Astroloma humifusum.
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Native devil

  • . (Zoöl.) Same as Tasmanian devil, under Devil.
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native fuchsia

  • noun erect deciduous shrub or tree to 10 feet with maroon flowers; New Zealand
    Fuchsia excorticata; tree fuchsia; konini.
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native hawaiian

  • noun a member or descendant of the indigenous Polynesian people who lived in the Hawaiian Islands
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Native hen

  • (Zoöl.), an Australian rail (Tribonyx Mortierii).
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native holly

  • noun low spreading evergreen shrub of southern Australia having triangular to somewhat heart-shaped foliage and orange-yellow flowers followed by flat winged pods
    Playlobium obtusangulum; common flat pea.
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native land

  • noun the country where you were born
    motherland; country of origin; mother country; fatherland; homeland.
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native language

  • noun the language that a person has spoken from earliest childhood
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native orange

  • noun small Australian tree bearing edible dark purple fruit
    Capparis mitchellii.
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native peach

  • noun red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam
    quandong; quantong; quandang.
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native pear

  • noun tree bearing pear-shaped fruit with a thick woody epicarp
    woody pear; Xylomelum pyriforme.
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Native pheasant

  • . (Zoöl.) See Leipoa.
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native pomegranate

  • noun small Australian tree bearing edible fruit resembling the pomegranate
    Capparis arborea.
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Native rabbit

  • (Zoöl.), an Australian marsupial (Perameles lagotis) resembling a rabbit in size and form.
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Native sloth

  • (Zoöl.), the koala.
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native speaker

  • noun a speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood
    • native speakers of French
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native sulfur

  • noun an old name for sulfur
    brimstone; native sulfur.
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native sulphur

  • noun an old name for sulfur
    brimstone; native sulfur.
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Native thrush

  • (Zoöl.), an Australian singing bird (Pachycephala olivacea); called also thickhead.
Webster 1913

Native turkey

  • (Zoöl.), the Australian bustard (Choriotis australis); called also bebilya.
Webster 1913

native-born

  • adjective satellite belonging to a place by birth
    • a native-born Scot
    • a native Scot
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