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native soil

NOUN
mother country
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We were there the moment pioneering horticulturist Robbie Blackhall-Miles returned it to its native soil.

From BBC May 24, 2024

Our newest study suggests that your microbes are not only living in the soil but also cooperating with native soil microbes to help decompose your body.

From Salon Oct. 2, 2023

It’s an American saga, wrought of the native soil, of tougher times but maybe better times, or seeming so because you were young in them.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 9, 2022

A staple of West African cooking when the Atlantic slave trade began in the 16th century, okra was forcibly uprooted from its native soil, just like the people who loved it.

From Washington Post Oct. 8, 2019

For the first time in 28 months our feet once more trod our native soil.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer




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