non-native

See also: nonnative

English

Alternative forms

• nonnative

Etymology

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 factor 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.

Translations

not indigenous

• Finnish: ei-syntyperäinen, muukalainen (fi)

Noun

non-native (plural non-natives)

1. A person who is not native.