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n. 1 (context biology English) A species that normally lives and thrives in a particular ecosystem. This can include any species that developed with the surrounding habitat, and can be assisted by or affected by a new species. 2 native species.
Usage examples of "native species".
This mint varies considerably in appearance in different plants, like all the other native species of mint, some being much larger than others, with a more developed foliage and a much greater hairiness of all the parts.
Although our native species are not striking enough to be made use of by the horticulturist, there are many garden varieties of Geum which are easily grown in fairly rich, loamy soil and are mostly propagated by dividing the roots in early autumn or in spring as growth commences.
Our native species had at one time a reputation for medicinal qualities and was on that account included in most of the old Herbals.
The native species is not unlike the Indian variety, but there is a slight difference in the leaves.
And the fae would have responded to their need, as it does with all native species.
If the fae was capable of changing humanity like it changed the native species .
The open end was screened by a blurred area that sometimes seemed to be one Native species and sometimes another.
Most of them were members of the bovine native species that the Neyel had apparently enslaved long ago, along with representatives of a number of other sentient races, including Neyel, mixed among them.
This is as true of species that came from Earth as it is for the native species.