Difference between Homegrown and Native

What is the difference between Homegrown and Native?

Homegrown as an adjective is grown at home. while Native as an adjective is belonging to one by birth.

Homegrown

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Grown at home. Created or constructed in an informal or amateur manner; done without formal assistance, as from a business, organization, or professional.

Example sentence: We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

Native

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person who is native to a place (literal or metaphoric).A North American Indian or Aboriginal person.Sometimes used pejoratively against indigenous peoples by their colonizers.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Belonging to one by birth.Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning.Of or relating to North American Indians or Aboriginal people.Characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin.Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by man.Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form; native aluminium, native salt.

Example sentence: Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

We hope you now know whether to use Homegrown or Native in your sentence.

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