native

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

I.


n.

This word, originally applied, aselsewhere, to the aboriginal inhabitants of Australia, is nowused exclusively to designate white people born in Australia.The members of the «Australian Natives' Association» (A.N.A.),founded April 27, 1871, pride themselves on beingAustralian-born and not immigrants. Mr. Rudyard Kipling, inthe `Times' of Nov. 1895, published a poem called «TheNative-Born,» sc. born in the British Empire, but outside GreatBritain. As applied to Plants, Animals, Names, etc., the word Native bears its original sense, as in «Native Cabbage,» «Native Bear,» «Native name for,» etc., though in the last caseit is now considered more correct to say in Australia «Aboriginal name for,» and in New Zealand «Maori name for.»

1861. Mrs. Meredith, `Over the Straits,' c. v. p. 161:

«Three Sydney natives (`currency' not aboriginal) were in thecoach, bound for Melbourne.»

1896. A. B. Paterson, `Man from Snowy River,' p. 43:

«They were long and wiry natives from the rugged mountainside.»

See celery, australian

II.

or Rock-Native

n.

a namegiven to the fish called Schnapper, after it has ceasedto «school.» See Schnapper.

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