Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
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Noun
S: (n) native, indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal (an indigenous person who was born in a particular place) "the art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students"
S: (n) native (a person born in a particular place or country) "he is a native of Brazil"
S: (n) recombinant (a cell or organism in which genetic recombination has occurred)
S: (n) conspecific (an organism belonging to the same species as another organism)
S: (n) carrier ((genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring)
S: (n) denizen (a plant or animal naturalized in a region) "denizens of field and forest"; "denizens of the deep"
S: (n) amphidiploid ((genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent)
S: (n) diploid ((genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number)
S: (n) haploid ((genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes)
S: (n) heteroploid ((genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that species)
S: (n) polyploid ((genetics) an organism or cell having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes)
S: (n) aerobe (an organism (especially a bacterium) that requires air or free oxygen for life)
S: (n) anaerobe (an organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live)
S: (n) hybrid, crossbreed, cross ((genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species) "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey"
S: (n) polymorph (an organism that can assume more than one adult form as in the castes of ants or termites)
S: (n) relative, congener, congenator, congeneric (an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus))
S: (n) plankton (the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water)
S: (n) nekton (the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales)
S: (n) parasite (an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host)
S: (n) host (an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association)
S: (n) commensal (either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent)
S: (n) myrmecophile (an organism such as an insect that habitually shares the nest of a species of ant)
S: (n) eukaryote, eucaryote (an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells)
S: (n) prokaryote, procaryote (a unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei; bacteria are the prime example but also included are blue-green algae and actinomycetes and mycoplasma)
S: (n) zooid (one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan)
S: (n) clone, clon (a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction)
S: (n) atavist, throwback (an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism)
S: (n) sitter (an organism (person or animal) that sits)
S: (n) stander (an organism (person or animal) that stands) "a crowd of sitters and standers"
S: (n) utterer, vocalizer, vocaliser (an organism that can utter vocal sounds) "an utterer of foul oaths"; "is the giraffe a vocalizer?"
S: (n) fungus (an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia)
S: (n) relict (an organism or species surviving as a remnant of an otherwise extinct flora or fauna in an environment much changed from that in which it originated)
S: (n) saprobe (an organism that lives in and derives its nourishment from organic matter in stagnant or foul water)
S: (n) katharobe (an organism that lives in an oxygenated medium lacking organic matter)
Adjective
S: (adj) native (characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin) "the native North American sugar maple"; "many native artists studied abroad"
S: (adj) native (belonging to one by birth) "my native land"; "one's native language"
S: (adj) native, aboriginal (characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning) "native Americans"; "the aboriginal peoples of Australia"
S: (adj) native (as found in nature in the elemental form) "native copper"