native - [ ney-tiv ]
See synonyms for: native / natives / natively

Being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being:

• one's native land.
• belonging to a person by birth or to a thing by nature;
• inherent:
• native ability;
• native grace.

Belonging by birth to a people regarded as indigenous to a certain place, especially a preliterate people:

• Native guides accompanied the expedition through the rainforest.
• of indigenous origin, growth, or production:
  
• native pottery.

Sometimes Offensive. one of the people indigenous to a place or country, especially as distinguished from strangers, foreigners, colonizers, etc.:

• the natives of Chile.
• a person born in a particular place or country:
• a native of Ohio.
• an organism indigenous to a particular region.

British. an oyster reared in British waters, especially in an artificial bed.

Astrology. a person born under a particular planet: Capricorn natives are practical, collected, and reliable allies to have in a crisis.