native land

noun

: the country in which one was born

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Within individual river catchments, changes such as clearing native land cover for agriculture or urbanization alters how precipitation moves into river corridors and can either increase or decrease the size and return interval of floods. Ellen Wohl august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025 Wildlife commissioners voted to move forward with crafting rules for a public hunt of bears, though 75% of 13,000 public comments fielded by the agency were opposed to reprising a hunt of the state’s largest native land mammal, estimated to number about 4,000. Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2025 Trump is expected to spend four days in Scotland, his mother's native land. Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 25 July 2025 Learn About Historic Fort King This U.S. Army frontier fort played an important role in the Second Seminole War when the Seminole fought to protect their native land against American settlers. Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 22 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for native land

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“Native land.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/native%20land. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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