Native and Plain

Native

Native adjective - Belonging to a particular place by birth or origin.

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Plain and native are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Plain" instead an adjective "Native".

Nearby Words: nativity, natively

Plain adjective - Free from all additions or embellishment.

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Native and plain are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Native" instead an adjective "Plain".

Nearby Words: plainly, plainness, plaint

Spam "sushi" (actually Spam musubinote a type of onigiri, a plain steamed rice ball which is topped instead of stuffed like the normal onigiri, as the rice isn't sushi rice), in particular, is a popular state food (even Barack Obama, a Hawaii native, is a known connoisseur of the dish).

Source: Germans Love David Hasselhoff / Food
Bands like Arch Enemy, while somewhat popular in their native Europe, are just plain massive in Japan.

Source: Germans Love David Hasselhoff / Music
This line goes from funny to plain silly when you realize that "el dorado" is a term from his native language, the equivalent of an English speaker saying something like "Apparently courthouse is a native word for hole in the road".

Source: In the Local Tongue

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