Alien
Alien adjective - Being, relating to, or characteristic of a country other than one's own.
Usage example: new immigrants with customs alien to the community where they have settled
Local
Local adjective - Of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Impersonating an Officer: The good alien parasite poses as an FBI officer so it can enlist the help of local human law enforcement to hunt down the evil alien parasite who killed his partner.
Source: Film / The Hidden -
Mass Effect has Chora's Den, a seedy little place run by a local crime lord with brutish alien clientele and saucy alien strippers.
Source: Bad-Guy Bar -
The alien impregnates a local woman, who gives birth (by having them eat her from the inside out) to thousands of "slugs", that share the original alien's mind.
Source: Film / Slither
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