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native soil

NOUN
mother country
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L.A.’s sons and daughters, mothers and grandmothers, uncles and aunties, leaders and stewards, artists and musicians, holding court on native soil.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

A few minutes later, the small mountain jewels are back in their native soil.

From BBC • May 24, 2024

Our newest study suggests that your microbes are not only living in the soil but also cooperating with native soil microbes to help decompose your body.

From Salon • Oct. 2, 2023

But he watched the trees grow, year after year putting on as much — or, incredibly, sometimes more — wood as the same tree planted in native soil would have.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2020

To uproot these prematurely from their native soil and transplant them in an alien one, is to blight nascent talent and to warp character.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella




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