homegrown

[ hohm-grohn ]

/ ˈhoʊmˈgroʊn /

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adjective

grown or produced at home or in a particular region for local consumption: homegrown tomatoes.

native to, characteristic of, or developed in a particular region: the music of our own homegrown musicians; a community known for its homegrown hospitality; America’s homegrown terrorists.

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Origin of homegrown

First recorded in 1635–45; home + grown

How to use homegrown in a sentence

Still, legal weed yielded from a legally home-grown plant cannot be sold to dispensaries or individual customers.
Will Home Grown Marijuana Go the Way of Moonshine?|Caitlin Dickson|February 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Wimbledon might get its first home-grown champion in 76 years, after all.
Wimbledon Gets Weird With Federer, Nadal & Sharapova All Out|Nicholas McCarvel|June 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
His garments are constructed entirely of home-grown components, right down to the thread.
Farmwear Label, Pointer Brand, Hits High Fashion Note|Misty White Sidell|April 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Her religious notions and home-grown prejudices were antagonistic to the complete emancipation of her intelligence.
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket|Honore de Balzac

Back in God's country, the first of the home-grown watermelons oughter be comin' in about now, oughten they?
Those Times And These|Irvin S. Cobb
The planter's wife sat over against him, on the other side of the passage, carding home-grown cotton wool with hand cards.
Duffels|Edward Eggleston
Landscapes, figure subjects were all importations, none home-grown.
A Book of Ghosts|Sabine Baring-Gould
The loyal North Carolina regiments are an evidence that that number of home-grown men will readily appear.
The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 76, February, 1864|Various

British Dictionary definitions for homegrown

home-grown

adjective

(esp of fruit and vegetables) produced in one's own country, district, estate, or garden

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