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native ground

n. (alternative name of: native soil)

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Native ground

Native ground is the land belonging to a native (particular) area, tribe (as in Native American or other indigenous people), etc.

Native ground may also refer to:

  • Native Ground, a 1979 poem by Robert Minhinnick
  • On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions, an autobiography by Jim Barnes
  • On Native Grounds, a 1942 literary work by Alfred Kazin

Usage examples of "native ground".

Cereals, grasses and grains, however, could not be grown because of the native ground-cover motile-stem plants.

He had hunted mountain lion, and lion in the beast's native ground is very wary game.

Under these circumstances it was an inevitable, and as much in fulfillment of the designs of divine Providence, that the old races should be supplanted by the new, as that the horse and the cow should displace the alligator and the elk , and brakes and bulrushes yield their native ground to corn.

Whichever one held to the pursuit of Avshar would keep the greater part of the army, but the other would have the chance to solidify his position on his native ground with the rest of the clan.

Beyond the stream lay untouched native ground, steeply falling into a dale already full of dusk, clothed in bluish-green growth wherever boulders did not thrust forth-lodix like a kind of trilobate grass or clover, gemmed with petals of arrowhead and sunbloom, between coppices of tall redlance and supple daphne.

According to the Underdowns, the Belgians are bent on protecting against independent thought on native ground.

Jefferson's devotion to home, to family, and his own native ground was quite as strong as Adams's.

However, you will visit me too some day, and see my native ground.