non-native
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English
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[edit ]non- native (not comparable )
- Not native; not indigenous to a particular area; foreign; invasive.
- 2016, Greg Rubin, Lucy Warren, The Drought-Defying California Garden, Portland: Timber Press, published 2021, →ISBN, page 135:
- Use purple three-awn grass to replace the overused, invasive non-native weedy Mexican feather grass (Nassella tenuissima).
- 2023 November 24, Rory Carroll, "‘Government is not listening’: anger over immigration spills into riot on Dublin’s streets", in The Guardian[1] , →ISSN:
- 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.
Usage notes
[edit ]- The hyphenated and solid forms are similarly common in the American corpus, while the hyphenated form outperforms the solid one by a factor of 4.3 in the British corpus.[1] GPO manual item 6.29. recommends to spell non- prefixed words without a hyphen unless an overriding consideration applies.[2]
Derived terms
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[edit ]not indigenous
- Finnish: ei-syntyperäinen , muukalainen (fi)
- German: nichteinheimisch
- Japanese: 非ネイティブ (hineitibu)
- Polish: nierodzimy
- Russian: неме́стный (ru) (neméstnyj)
Noun
[edit ]non- native (plural non-natives )
- A person who is not native.
References
[edit ]- ^ "[non - native]/nonnative", in Google Books Ngram Viewer .
- ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov
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