homegrown

[hohm-grohn]

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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

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018

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domestic homemade native

Examples from the Web for homegrown

Contemporary Examples

And the valley hosts a hodgepodge of homegrown Syrian-American groups—some with close ties to the government in Damascus.
Welcome to Assadville, USA
Christopher Moraff
November 11, 2014
According to Homegrown Video owner Farrell Timlake, women are now submitting their own videos almost as much as men.
Christian Right-Wingers Love Porn: New Studies Suggest the Bible Belt Has A Kinky Side
Aurora Snow
October 11, 2014
While not exactly the Ugly American, Sinatra provided plenty of his own homegrown ballast.
Frank Sinatra and the Birth of the Jet Set
William Stadiem
August 2, 2014
The men finally have a homegrown support base that can go horn-to-horn with any country.
Portland Is Ground Zero for the Best Women’s Soccer in the World
Evelyn Shoop
June 30, 2014
They will take with them, if they can, some of their homegrown preserves.
Mom and Pop on Ukraine’s Battle Line
Anna Nemtsova
June 2, 2014

Historical Examples

The days were days of wonder for the homegrown young Quaker engineer.
Herbert Hoover
Vernon Kellogg
There was in them an element of life, they were capable of improvement, and they were homegrown.
An Old English Home
S. Baring-Gould
The Council of India put on countervailing duties to protect their homegrown cane from the bounty-fed beet.
Creative Chemistry
Edwin E. Slosson
The homegrown beets give us only a fifth and the cane of Louisiana and Texas only a fifteenth of the sugar we need.
Creative Chemistry
Edwin E. Slosson