Indigenous vs. Native

Indigenous (adjective)

Born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion. from 17th c.

Indigenous (adjective)

Innate, inborn. from 19th c.

Indigenous (adjective)

Of or relating to the native inhabitants of a land.

Indigenous (adjective)

Of or relating to a language, culture, or ethnic group that has not spread by colonization, or that has been on the receiving end of colonization.

Native (adjective)

Belonging to one by birth.

“This is my native land.”

“English is not my native language.”

“I need a volunteer native New Yorker for my next joke…”

Native (adjective)

Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.

“What are now called ‘Native Americans’ used to be called Indians.”

“The native peoples of Australia are called aborigines.”

Native (adjective)

of or relating to the native inhabitants of the Americas, or of Australia.

Native (adjective)

Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.

“a native inhabitant”

“native oysters or strawberries”

“Many native artists studied abroad.”

Native (adjective)

Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by man.

“The naturalized Norway maple often outcompetes the native North American sugar maple.”

Native (adjective)

Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.

“This is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds.”

“The native integer size is sixteen bits.”

Native (adjective)

Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form; native aluminium, native salt.

Native (adjective)

Arising by birth; having an origin; born.

Native (adjective)

Original; constituting the original substance of anything.

“native dust”

Native (adjective)

Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).

Native (noun)

A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.

Native (noun)

A person of aboriginal stock, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. nodot=1 aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia.

“Some natives must have stolen our cattle.”

Native (noun)

A native speaker.

Native (noun)

, a kind of oyster.