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"Indigenous"

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈneɪtɪv/Part of speech noun, adjectiveSorted aeintvStarts with NEnds with E2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. indigenous plants and animals

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English natif, from Old French natif, from Latin nātīvus, from nātus (“birth”). Doublet of naive and neif. Displaced native Middle English thedisch, equivalent to (puristic) theed + -ish. By surface analysis, Latin nat- + -ive.

Used in a sentence

  • This is my native land.
  • English is not my native language.
  • I need a volunteer native New Yorker for my next joke…

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Indigenous6 letters
02From a place originally6 letters

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