non-native

See also: nonnative

English

Alternative forms

• nonnative

Etymology

From non- + native.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nɒnˈneɪtɪv/
• Rhymes: -eɪtɪv
• Rhymes: -eɪtɪv

Adjective

non-native (not comparable)

1. 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

• 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. GPO manual item 6.29. recommends to spell non- prefixed words without a hyphen unless an overriding consideration applies.

Derived terms

• non-native speaker
• non-native species

Translations

not indigenous

• Finnish: ei-syntyperäinen, muukalainen (fi)
• German: nichteinheimisch
• Japanese: 非ネイティブ (hineitibu)
• Russian: неме́стный (ru) (neméstnyj)

Noun

non-native (plural non-natives)

1. A person who is not native.