nonnative in English

adjective
1
(of a person, plant, or animal) not indigenous or native to a particular place.
adjective
    foreign-born

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1. Chaperonins are able to positively influence refolding through sequestration of nonnative proteins

2. Italian Arum is a nonnative perennial that was originally introduced as an ornamental plant

3. Antonyms for Autochthon include nonnative, foreigner, stranger, nonnational, outsider, tourist, settler, visitor, newcomer and incomer

4. A reptilian nightmare: Florida Bans nonnative species despite industry outcry Tom Rahill handles a Burmese python in Fort Lauderdale, Fla

5. An experiment done by Kimball and Schiffman showed that grazing increased the cover of some native species but did not decrease the cover of nonnative species.

6. The hemlock woolly Adelgid (HWA), Adelges tsugae, is a nonnative, invasive insect pest that colonizes, feeds on the sap of, and ultimately kills both eastern and Carolina hemlock trees, Tsuga canadensis and Tsuga caroliniana

7. The story of American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) is one that tells a story of ecological change across a region.In this case, nonnative pests were inadvertently introduced, for which the native species had no defense

8. Molecular Chaperones are a ubiquitous class of folding modulators that play a central role in the conformational quality control of the proteome by interacting with, stabilizing and remodeling a wide range of nonnative polypeptides

9. "appendixes; Appendices" "Both are correct plural forms for appendix, but appendixes is preferable outside scientific contexts […] Nevertheless, the nonnative plural is more frequent [per Google Books Ngram data] by a 3-to-1 margin." OxfordDictionaries.com, UK subset