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"nonnative" Definitions
  1. of or relating to a language that is not the first language acquired by a person: It is harder to communicate in your nonnative language.
  2. of or relating to a person communicating in a nonnative language: a nonnative speaker of English.
  3. Biology
  4. of or relating to a plant or animal that is not indigenous to a region: The proliferation of nonnative plants is choking out the local flora.
  5. Digital Technology
  6. of or relating to software that was not originally designed for the platform on which it is running: nonnative user interfaces;

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Moving nonnative managed colonies has proven risky, though: Nonnative species can spread disease to native ones, reducing native bee populations.
Yellowstone has 2000,22018 native plant species and 5003 nonnative ones.
Yellowstone has 2000,22018 native plant species and 5003 nonnative ones.
"The most important thing that the public can do to stop the spread of nonnative species like tegus is to NEVER release nonnative animals into the wild," commission specialist Jamie Rager said in an email.
English is a global language with many native and nonnative varieties.
And many revolutionary hits succeeded precisely because of their nonnative origins.
But really, what is wrong with having a nonnative species among us?
The nonnative minorities are given special districts and rights of self-administration.
These forces are also drawn into conflicts between native and nonnative groups.
A California statute from the 1930s banned ferrets because they were nonnative.
For a nonnative the challenge comes in deciding where to classify certain names.
By some estimates, 90 percent of these archipelagos are plagued by nonnative rodents.
Separately, Cramer also spoke on the U.K.'s outlook and fears of nonnative workers.
A landscape populated by nonnative plants is, for wildlife, the equivalent of a desert.
Worldwide, nonnative speakers of English outnumber natives by a ratio of three to one.
N.Y.C. Nature Beautiful Japanese knotweed is one of North America's most hated nonnative plants.
Sitka black-tailed deer, a nonnative mammal to Kodiak Island, were first successfully introduced to the island in 1924 as were other nonnative species including reindeer, mountain goats, Roosevelt elk, beaver, red squirrel, snowshoe hare, and pine marten, between the 1920s and 1960s.
Introduced decades ago, the popular sport fish thrives in this nonnative habitat—by eating salmon.
They've introduced nonnative species such as Bosch dishwashers, Wolf stoves and French oak wood floors.
Unlike Mr. Riely in Rhode Island, Mr. Rajala is not willing to introduce nonnative species — yet.
Experiments show that people tend to make negative stereotypical assumptions about speakers with a nonnative accent.
The nonnative species knows how to fight or avoid its predators, and is good at reproducing.
Many of them, like the veiled chameleon, Mexican spinytail iguana and Javan file snake, are nonnative.
It's too soon to say for sure that nonnative species will win out over uniquely Australian critters.
The state has a lot of nonnative grasses and plants — most notably the highly flammable eucalyptus plant.
Today, the Great Lakes are home to 186 nonnative species — the worst being the zebra and quagga mussels.
The U.S. Geological Survey recently released data to better understand the biology and ecology of the nonnative invasive lionfish.
Habitat loss, climate change and nonnative predators like foxes and feral cats have contributed to the quolls' rapid decline.
The nonnative animals arrived in the 25th century, and now number in the thousands on Nevis and St. Kitts.
The nonnative trees include ponderosa pine from South Dakota and Nebraska, and bitternut hickory from southern Minnesota and Illinois.
"Singing it in German with full attention to text can be tiring for a nonnative speaker," she said by phone.
Nonnative English speakers, for example, are frequently reported by people who prejudiciously assume them to be noncitizens, Ms. Lakin said.
Nonstandard native accents are also underrepresented in the media, and like nonnative accents, are likely to be stereotyped and mocked.
The other attacker is the nonnative white pine blister rust, a deadly fungus that attacks the stems of the trees.
"Nonnative vegetation species are more flammable or better at spreading fire than what would have been there otherwise," said Dr. Williams.
Since 1790, population statistics have faithfully recognized a category of "white" people, sometimes more than one, especially native- and nonnative born.
In the grayish light of early spring, it was the greener-looking side because it had English ivy, a nonnative species.
The brothers (and the audience) find a few surprises there, a handful of colorful secondary characters and some arresting nonnative fauna.
Now, with Hurricane Irma fast approaching Florida, wildlife organizations are concerned that other nonnative species could be unleashed in the state.
Many of the clients are nonnative speakers of English whose knowledge of the subject might be obscured by their poor writing.
And to convince his fellow nobles and subjects of his legitimacy to rule, this nonnative Burgundian had to put on a show.
In the past five decades, four species of nonnative crocodile have been introduced into Florida's waters, but the Nile crocodile is deadly.
Governments must aggressively police that threat with their powers to stop imports of nonnative species that could imperil native wildlife and plants.
They use only bark and branches salvaged from the rain-forest floor or nonnative woods left over from the local furniture industry.
Having lived here for nearly 14 years as a nonnative, I can really appreciate the many ways this city outshines its competitors.
Food Matters From turmeric in Nicaragua to cardamom in Guatemala, nonnative ingredients are redefining trade routes and making unexpected connections across lands.
And the potential, once the nonnative trees were cleared, of becoming home to not just one but four or five spectacular courses.
County officials had hoped to "improve" fishing by killing non-sport species and stocking the pond with nonnative rainbow and brown trout.
After a landscape burns, these nonnative plants seem to grow back faster than their native kin, making it easier for them to spread.
Facebook said that contributed to misunderstandings and made it harder for users navigating the platform in the nonnative language to report offensive content.
Separately, a nonnative, potent plant pathogen is thriving in the moist areas of the North Coast, introduced to California soil by global trade.
Researchers are experimenting with a Rube Goldberg-esque mix of tactics to control hearty, nonnative swimmers that re-engineer nutrient-rich Midwest waters.
Peter Jenkins, president of the Center for Invasive Species Prevention, said nonnative tropical fish could enter waterways from breeding ponds during storm surges.
Here the staff has rooted out nonnative honeysuckles and knotweeds throughout groves of maple, beech, hickory, sweet gum, oak, ash and tulip trees.
So many infants had been born opioid-dependent that the state foster care system was compelled to place Cherokee children with nonnative families.
Maybe it's how strange they are as a construct, and how unpredictably they can appear in English (much to the chagrin of nonnative speakers).
Ninety percent of the students in the Kansas City school district qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and 40 percent are nonnative English speakers.
In South Carolina, residents will no longer be allowed to own big cats, nonnative bears or apes — though presumably owning a native bear remains legal.
As earthworms feast on that layer, they allow nonnative plants such as European buckthorn and grasses to thrive, which in turn push out endemic plants.
That's because the Burmese python, as its name suggests, is a nonnative species in Florida that is considered invasive and harmful to the area's ecology.
When we say that someone speaks with an accent, we generally mean one of two things: a nonnative accent or a so-called nonstandard accent.
Since the illegal introduction in the 1980s of nonnative lake trout, however, which feed on juvenile cutthroats, the spawning runs are down by 90 percent.
But it also paved the way for this year's explosion, because the dry winter killed off some of the nonnative plants that compete with the poppy.
American dogwood, and its nonnative relative the kousa dogwood, can be found growing throughout the five boroughs, but as often in ornamental plantings as in woodlands.
But the typical American lawn, a virtual monoculture made of nonnative turf grass, contributes almost nothing to this equation, and in many cases causes it harm.
This happened out of necessity, out of self-acceptance and, frankly, joy in my own signing body, but for other nonnative signers it happens out of choice.
OTTAWA — For decades, Canadian social workers forcibly separated indigenous children from their families, putting them up for adoption by nonnative families in Canada and around the world.
In his study, nonnative English speakers who had been immersed in English in their late 20s made only slightly fewer grammatical mistakes than native speakers in preschool.
"Nonnative plant?" sounds like a live plant that came from another country, but today it's a SPY, because a spy is embedded or planted in a community.
Whatever the origins of the wild carrot's name and pollination strategies, there is little damage done by collecting a few leaves, flowers or roots; the plants are both abundant and nonnative.
Like many children of immigrants who are raised by nonnative English speakers, I've always struggled with the English language, unable to twist my tongue around complex words and ace grammar tests.
As nonnative English speakers studying in a four-year program with the same expectations as native English speakers, they face significant pressure to develop their linguistic skills while learning new content.
But residents sometimes dump nonnative species out of their aquariums and into bodies of water near roads because they no longer want to take care of the creatures, Mr. Robinson said.
Spooky costumed characters would roam the grounds of Philipsburg Manor, where the Headless Horseman had been forced to share billing with a werewolf, Frankenstein's monster, and other nonnative species of ghoul.
Add to that an off-the-menu order of mapo tofu, which arrives sizzling and jiggling in a cast-iron skillet, though the spice level is adjusted to accommodate nonnative palates.
In my relationship with English, in this relationship with the intrinsic distance between a nonnative speaker and an adopted language that makes people look askance, I feel invisible but not estranged.
Mr. Dempster's film has been making the rounds of Native American film festivals around the West Coast and was just accepted at its first nonnative event, the Green Bay Film Festival.
The letter, which the German news media said was written in slightly awkward, nonnative German, blamed Chancellor Angela Merkel for taking part in actions against Islamists and demanded an end to attacks.
Now in its 50th year, the custom involves a few hundred Native Americans and nonnative people gathering on Cole's Hill, overlooking Plymouth Rock, to consider Thanksgiving from the perspective of Native Americans.
Not only that, but the introduction of nonnative honeybees can bring with it disease and competition for nectar sources, reducing some populations of native bees even further and robbing ecosystems of important biodiversity.
In addition to his usual eloquent, communicative delivery, Mr. Scholl showed a typical care for diction in a nonnative language, delicate shadings of tone color and dynamics, lively humor and so much more.
"Most conservation biologists and ecologists do not oppose nonnative species per se," wrote Daniel Simberloff, a professor of environmental science at the University of Tennessee, who led the group that wrote the rebuttal.
A new port on the mainland will be the exclusive conduit for cargo bound for the islands, the better to keep nonnative animals and plants from reaching the islands and disturbing the ecological balance.
While on an extended trip in Norway, and desperate for nonnative Norwegians to meet, I prowled and posted on Yik Yak in Oslo to try to figure out where young brown people hung out.
The introduction of invasive species — nonnative crabs or mussels clinging to the hull of a ship, foreign plant seeds stuck in the lining of a tourist's parka — remains an important and ever-present threat.
Even considering this sad harvest, it is the disappearance of suitable habitat through development, competition from nonnative plants and, most recently, the proliferation of urban deer, that have so reduced this beautiful orchid's numbers.
The team's research, published recently in the Journal of Herpetological Conservation and Biology, took place in Miami-Dade and Hendry counties from 2000 to 2014, during which time the scientists studied four "nonnative" crocodile species.
As more and different kinds of nonnative sea lions have arrived in the Columbia River Basin over the years, state, federal, tribal, and animal rights organizations remain locked in negotiations over legal precedents and predicted ramifications.
Right now, "nothing keeps the population in check other than divers spearing them," said Amanda Nalley, a spokeswoman for the fish and wildlife commission, which estimates that millions of lionfish — perhaps billions — lurk in nonnative waters.
Cases of rat lungworm have risen sharply over the past five years, driven first by the arrival of the lungworm parasite, from Southeast Asia, followed by the spread of a nonnative slug that carries the disease.
With a $10,000 grant from the Davis Projects for Peace, I created a new science-enrichment curriculum, because a lot of students were nonnative speakers; I also trained teachers and helped put together a science library.
The listing decision, published on Friday in the Federal Register, classifies seven varieties of yellow-faced or masked bees as endangered, due to such factors as habitat loss, wildfires and the invasion of nonnative plants and insects.
But the practice of stocking nonnative fish into water bodies where they already exist remains standard for now, because the people who pay fishing license fees want it and an entire recreational fishing industry depends on it.
Indigenous Australians are disproportionately represented in the youth justice system and are 18 times more likely than their nonnative counterparts to be under "justice supervision," according to a report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Each letter is represented by "a tree from the NYC Parks Department's existing native and nonnative trees, as well as species that are to be planted as a result of the changing climate," according to her website.
Green iguanas, the nonnative lizard known for wreaking havoc on Florida sidewalks, seawalls, and plants, are thriving as record heat grips the Sunshine State, so much so that officials are now urging homeowners to kill them whenever possible.
Read: Favorite Thanksgiving Recipes From Across Canada Read: Thanksgiving 2017 Read: Canadian Thanksgiving Ideas • Indigenous people who were scooped up in a 1960s program as children and adopted by nonnative families have reached an accord with the government.
The National Park Service reports that the Everglades are suffering from a barrage of pressure brought on by numerous nonnative species, including exotic fish that gobble up native fish species and melaleuca trees that crowd out indigenous plants.
Some women cite academic and professional accomplishments, like graduating from college, as occasion for getting their tattoos, while others say that making their Alaska Native heritage visible — so as not to "pass" as white or nonnative — motivated their decision.
The granting of a permit in July to tunnel under the Missouri spurs the growth of the protest camp (to an eventual 10,000 people, many of them nonnative), captured in Woodstock-like images of cars arriving in slow files.
In September, seven varieties of yellow-faced bees in Hawaii became the first such insects to be added to the U.S. list of endangered species because of losses due to habitat destruction, wildfires and the invasion of nonnative plants and insects.
While the meaning of "invasive" has been the subject of some debate, the generally accepted definition is a plant, animal or other organism that, aided by humans, has recently moved to a place where it is nonnative, to detrimental effect.
Alvaro Domingo said that while it had been surprising to see so many nonnative Spanish speakers win in recent years, the prize goes to "whomever does it better," citing as an example "the temperament and clarity" of Ms. Zaharia's performance.
The more recent work in the retrospective — organized by Anne Ellegood, senior curator of the Hammer Museum, and installed by Elisabeth Sussman and Laura Phipps at the Whitney — includes homages to nonnative artists who have influenced him, among them Alexander Calder and David Hammons.
I still see the wide expanses of green, but I also see the high cost of keeping these nonnative monocultures growing: the wasted water, the overuse of fossil-fuel fertilizers, the threats to human and environmental health, even to the health of our dogs.
At best the city was derided as a breeding ground for trouble — the port of entry for destructive insects, ground zero for an ever-increasing list of nonnative plants and animals, its woodlands and shorelines besieged by unfamiliar new creatures establishing themselves among the remaining natives.
As the story goes, one fateful night in the late 1960s, Jimi Hendrix, best known for changing the music world with his guitar playing, set free two ring-necked parakeets on Carnaby Street and that's why thousands of the nonnative birds haunt London's parks to this day.
For example, James Murphy, a test preparation tutor, in his article in the Atlantic suggests that the revised SAT math questions will potentially have the greatest detriment for most vulnerable students — low-income and nonnative English speakers — because of their lack of adequate preparation for these type of questions.
In the long term, Charlie Cook suggested that demographic trends are likely to improve Democrats' prospects in Senate races: Maybe down the road a little further, the faster-growing Southern and western states — those with more nonnative state, heavily suburban populations — are going to get tougher for Republicans.
To a nonnative Londoner (I am German, married to a Welshman who, for the record, was also appalled at that headline) there is something admirable in this reflexive British spirit of not being cowed and pushing back against any notion that the country is "reeling," even if it can seem a bit defensive.
" Sessions, the ranking Republican member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, typically framed the immigration debate as a straightforward matter of enforcing laws on the books, but he also openly stoked white fears, later warning of a scenario in which "we'll have the highest percentage of Americans, nonnative born, since the founding of the republic.
It is testing four approaches: passively letting nature take its course; thinning and managing mostly native trees along traditional lines; growing a mix of native species but with some coming from 80 to 100 miles to the south; and the most radical one, bringing in nonnative trees from warmer, drier areas in nearby states.
We know this, but even so, at a time when the percentage of foreign-born residents in the United States is at its highest point in a century, the distinction between "native" and "nonnative" has grown vicious, and it is worth reminding ourselves of it again and again: No one speaks without an accent.
"Human infrastructure causes habitat loss and fragmentation and changes resource availability, novel species interactions occur because human movements and commerce introduce a diverse array of nonnative species, and human activity increases exposure to chemical, light, and noise pollution," the study's authors wrote in the paper first published last year but now updated with peer review edits on the bioarXiv preprint server.
Representative Sharice Davids, Democrat of Kansas and one of the first two Native American women elected to Congress in November, presided over the final vote on the measure, which contains a number of protections for women on tribal lands — including a new provision that would allow tribal courts to prosecute nonnative people accused of domestic crimes or dating violence on tribal lands.
Puns — of which Li, a nonnative English speaker who has now written six books in the language, is delightfully fond — skip from one point to the next until they circle back to the occasion for the conversation: The not-inexplicable not-tragedy the narrator is not-grieving is the suicide of her 16-year-old son, whom she calls Nikolai, though that's not his name.
Twenty years ago, I spent most of my time with nonnative travelers: a couple of strong-willed Italian women whom I met haggling in the medina; two Japanese women that we joined up with for a trek into the Sahara, the last part by camel; Spanish students on a budget even tighter than mine (one night we dined on canned tuna and r'ghayef, Moroccan flatbread, on a medina sidewalk).
After three days of debate, the group agreed to a set of interventions, including the construction of an eight-foot-tall, five-mile-long, pig-proof fence, and the installation of what would eventually be 300 reusable rat traps, each of which to be hand-placed in key areas and stocked with bait, to keep nonnative rats from eating the birds' eggs, their chicks and sometimes even the birds themselves, usually when a bird refused to abandon its nest.

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