Nonnative species have invaded Australia and threaten to overrun indigenous plants and animals.
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Nonnative
Synonyms for "nonnative" (63 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Adjective(9 words)
foreign-bornacquired languageadventitiousalien landalien speciesborrowed termsborrowed wordethnic outsiderexotic
Strong matches (19)
Adjective(14 words)
Noun(5 words)
Related words (31)
Adjective(14 words)
immigrantimported termintroducedinvasive species invasionnon canariannon dutch personnon greeknon-cretannon-italiannonenglish spellingnonindigenousnonnative pronunciationnot nativeoutlandish
Verb(2 words)
importedstudy a foreign tongue
Noun(12 words)
invasive speciesmore borrowed wordmore foreignmore nonnativemost foreignmost foreign-languagemost non-romaniannon romannon-greek loanwordnon-greek residentperegrinesecond language student
Adverb(1 words)
more alien
Determiner(2 words)
more foreign-language classroommost foreign-language curriculum
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11 entriesnonnative Englishnonnative animalnonnative grammarnonnative habitatnonnative learnernonnative plantnonnative pronunciationnonnative speakernonnative speciesnonnative studentnonnative vocabulary
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3 entriesAntonyms
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2 entriesSample sentences
4 total sentences available.
In addition to new diseases, Quammen touches on many of the examples often included in standard disease ecology or epidemiology courses—for example, myxomatosis in nonnative rabbits of Australia, and mutation rates in RNA versus DNA viruses.
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I aped the accent of a nonnative speaker.
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If you're a Chicagoan, you will find something in each that you didn't know about; nonnatives will find something in each they'll wish they'd read before making their last trip.
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