Definition: native

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

native
     adj 1: being such by origin; "the native North American sugar
            maple"; "many native artists studied abroad" [ant: foreign]
     2: belonging to one by birth; "my native land";  "one's native
        language" [ant: adopted]
     3: being or composed of people inhabiting a region from the
        beginning; "native Americans"; "the aboriginal peoples of
        Australia" [syn: aboriginal] [ant: nonnative]
     4: as found in nature in the elemental form; "native copper"
     5: normally existing at birth; "mankind's connatural sense of
        the good" [syn: connatural, inborn, inbred]
     n : a person who was born in a particular place; an indigenous
         person [syn: indigen, indigene]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Native \Na"tive\, a. [F. natif, L. nativus, fr. nasci, p. p.
   natus. See Nation, and cf. Na["i]ve, Nelf a serf.]
   1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. [Obs.]

            Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native,
            rising and vanishing again in long periods of times.
                                                  --Cudworth.

   2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the
      place or the circumstances in which one is born; --
      opposed to foreign; as, native land, language, color,
      etc.

   3. Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native
      inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where
      used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters,
      or strawberries.

Native \Na"tive\, n.
   1. One who, or that which, is born in a place or country
      referred to; a denizen by birth; an animal, a fruit, or
      vegetable, produced in a certain region; as, a native of
      France.

   2. (Stock Breeding) Any of the live stock found in a region,
      as distinguished from such as belong to pure and distinct
      imported breeds. [U.S.]