the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The quality or state of being native.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The state of being native, or produced by nature; naturalness.
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n. the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin
Word Usage
"THOUGH BOTANISTS first started talking about the idea of nativeness back in the 1830s, for most of history people didn't worry much about the risks of species moving from one place to another."