non-native
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“It’ll take time, more time than if we had a budget for plantings. You and I will have to watch out for invasives—non-native plants can mess with our soil and upset the system—but yeah. Ten years from now, it’ll be trees everywhere.”
From Literature
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They also hired a linguistics expert, who concluded that the language in the purported will didn’t appear to be drafted by trained legal professionals and was likely written by “non-native speakers of English,” the attorneys said in the court filing.
Too often, Mirelez said, the needs of tribes are unfairly portrayed as standing in conflict with the priorities of other Californians, such as economic development and job creation in neighboring non-Native communities.
From Los Angeles Times
In the park, hundreds of mostly non-native — and notoriously flammable — eucalyptuses, were considered part of the cultural historic landscape, Tejada said.
From Los Angeles Times
Certain species such as cow parsley, yarrow and knapweed are in fact spreading, and he welcomes an influx of non-native plants and "garden escapes", such as snowdrop and buddleia.
From BBC
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