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home-grown

homegrown \homegrown\, home-grown \home-grown\adj.

  1. grown or produced at home or in a specific locality; -- of plants or animals. [WordNet sense 1]

    Syn: local.

  2. Originating in a particular place or region; as, homegrown talent; -- applied broadly, to people (especially people with specific skills), products of manufacture, etc.

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home-grown

a. Having been produced locally. alt. Having been produced locally.

Usage examples of "home-grown".

There is genuine scientific paydirt in UFOs and alien abductions - but it is, I think, of a distinctly home-grown and terrestrial character.

He used home-grown jargon that made my head reel, talked a lot about crisis intervention and moral values—.

Omni Magazine, in 1982, stated that after nine years, Nabilone was still considered virtually useless when compared with real, home-grown THC-rich cannabis buds.

Although right now we don't worry enough about incoming disaster from Up There, we do worry a lot about home-grown disaster Down Here: nuclear warfare, biological warfare, global warming, pollution, overpopulation, destruction of habitat, burning of the rainforests, and so on.

Think of my great crusades about street-car companies, red-light districts and home-grown vegetables.

Hobbies include stamp collecting, and wishing my wife would let me bring home an electric guitar so my sons and I could terrorize the neighbors with our own home-grown, head-banging rock 'n' roll.

Surely that could be remedied by supplying her with home-grown sustenance.

Sending three Terminators, even this home-grown variety, after two humans was.