homegrown

== English == === Alternative forms === home-grown === Etymology === From home +‎ grown. === Adjective === homegrown (not comparable) (of produce) Raised or cultivated at home, on one's own land, or in one's own country; domestic; indigenous. [from 1640s] (by extension) Produced or coming from one's own country or a particular place; local; native; self-produced. [from 1730s] ==== Translations ==== === Noun === homegrown (plural homegrowns) Someone or something which originated locally. (by extension, derogatory) 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. === See also === homespun === References === Philip Babcock Gove et al., editors (1961), “homegrown”, in Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged [...], volume II: H to R, Merriam-Webster Inc., →ISBN, page 1082; republished Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1993, →ISBN “homegrown, adj. & n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.