homegrown

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Raised or cultivated at home, on one's own land, or in one's own country; domestic; indigenous.
  2. Produced or coming from one's own country or a particular place; local; native; self-produced.
noun
  1. Someone or something which originated locally.
  2. A native citizen of a country, especially a criminal, who has an ethnic, cultural and/or religious background that is different from the country’s historical majority, and is therefore perceived as foreign despite formal citizenship.

Word forms

homegrown home-grown homegrowns

Etymology

From home + grown.

Related words

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