native
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7.5
- adjective
- /ˈneɪtɪv/
- Specialized
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nativo
- The miners extracted native gold directly from the earth without any processing.
And that only Scientology can restore a thetans to its native state.
- And that only Scientology can restore a thetans to its native state.
- And that these polypeptide substrates have complex native folds.
- So only when the protein reach that native state, they can make the function they are made for.
- Because the that's right, because it is overcoming the, the native force of the tilted track to turn the car.
Examples
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This marvellous little man here has just made me the most extraordinary concoction out of native fruit juices.
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We will sow, for example, native plants around the water sources.
Academic text (2012) -
- We want native stone to build with.
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And we started with just native carbon off the periodic table.
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You don't see these native boats around much these days.
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This church is, for the most part, Spanish baroque built of native limestone.
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The Russian plants were infected with rust species that are also native to the Stavropol area.
Academic text (1994) -
They're native to Australia!
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The native yeasts in your cellar are converting the sugar inside the grapes to alcohol.
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The architect visited the site, and Clara begged him to use the warm, native stone of Callan School.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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5.6
Living or growing naturally in a place and not moved there from somewhere else
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6.7
Made of one simple chemical not joined to other chemicals
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9.9
Formed naturally in the place where it is found and not moved from elsewhere
Compounds
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3.4
A person whose family lived in North or South America before Europeans arrived
- Australian
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5.1
A person whose family lived in Australia before Europeans arrived
A person from the original communities who lived in Alaska or whose family comes from them
- Australian
A small Australian animal that lives in trees, carries babies in a pouch, and eats eucalyptus leaves
- Australian
A small Australian animal that looks like a cat and carries its babies in a pouch
- Australian
A low spreading shrub with bright red flowers and small berries like cranberries
- New Zealand
A shrub or small tree from New Zealand with dark red flowers that grows up to 10 feet tall
- Archaic
A bright yellow mineral that occurs as pure crystals in rocks and near volcanoes
- Australian
A low evergreen shrub from southern Australia with triangular or heart-shaped leaves and orange-yellow flowers
How Pure
Surface Forms
Etymology
Native for metals means found in nature in their original state, and it comes from natus 'born', suggesting the metal is 'as it was born' in the earth rather than mixed with other things.