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nonnative

nonnative is the alternative form of non-native.

Meaning of non-native

Adjective

non-native (not comparable)

  1. Not native; not indigenous to a particular area; foreign; invasive.
    • Use purple three-awn grass to replace the overused, invasive non-native weedy Mexican feather grass (Nassella tenuissima).2016, Greg Rubin, Lucy Warren, The Drought-Defying California Garden, Portland: Timber Press, published 2021, →ISBN, page 135

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Forms of nonnative

pluralnonnatives

Questions about nonnative

What is nonnative the alternative form of?
Nonnative is the alternative form of non-native.

Words near nonnative in the dictionary

  1. nonnasopharyngeal
  2. nonnat
  3. nonnational
  4. nonnationalistic
  5. nonnationals
  6. nonnative
  7. nonnatives
  8. nonnats
  9. nonnatural
  10. nonnaturalism
  11. nonnaturalist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nonnative (page history and authors); non-native (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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