native

Adjective

• as found in nature in the elemental form
  • native copper
    

• characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning
  • native Americans
    
  • the aboriginal peoples of Australia
    

• belonging to one by birth
  • my native land
    
  • one's native language
    

• characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin
  • the native North American sugar maple
    
  • many native artists studied abroad
    

Noun

• indigenous plants and animals

• a person born in a particular place or country
  • he is a native of Brazil
    

• an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
  • the art of the natives of the northwest coast
    
  • the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  aboriginal , indigen , indigene , aborigine
• Antonyms: 
  nonnative , adopted , adoptive , foreign , strange