| native | indigenous plants and animals |
country-dance
country dancing
contredanse
contra danse
contradance | a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line |
koala
koala bear
kangaroo bear
native bear
Phascolarctos cinereus | sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat, feeds on eucalyptus leaves and bark |
native cat
Dasyurus viverrinus | carnivorous arboreal cat-like marsupials of Australia and Tasmania |
| country house | a house (usually large and impressive) on an estate in the country |
country store
general store
trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
| native language | the language that a person has spoken from earliest childhood |
country music
country and western
C and W | a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States, usually played on stringed instruments |
| cross country | a long race run over open country |
quandong
quandang
quantong
native peach | red Australian fruit, used for dessert or in jam |
country people
countryfolk | people raised in or living in a rural environment, rustics |
| country people countryfolk | people living in the same country, compatriots |
| nation land country | the people who live in a nation or country, a statement that sums up the nation's mood, the news was announced to the nation, the whole country worshipped him |
| commonwealth country | any of the countries in the British Commonwealth |
| developing country | a country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically |
| foreign country | any state of which one is not a citizen, working in a foreign country takes a bit of getting used to |
state
nation
country
land
commonwealth
res publica
body politic | a politically organized body of people under a single government, the state has elected a new president, African nations, students who had come to the nation's capitol, the country's largest manufacturer, an industrialized land |
Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries
OPEC | an organization of countries formed in to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum |
| country club | a suburban club for recreation and socializing |
| area country | a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography), it was a mountainous area, Bible country |
| high country | an area lying above the piedmont but below the timberline |
backwoods
back country
boondocks
hinterland | a remote and undeveloped area |
fatherland
homeland
motherland
mother country
country of origin
native land | the country where you were born |
buffer state
buffer country | a small neutral state between two rival powers |
country
state
land | the territory occupied by a nation, he returned to the land of his birth, he visited several European countries |
| old country | the country of origin of an immigrant |
| country rural area | an area outside of cities and towns, his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country |
European country
European nation | any one of the countries occupying the European continent |
Scandinavian country
Scandinavian nation | any one of the countries occupying Scandinavia |
Balkan country
Balkan nation
Balkan state | any one of the countries on the Balkan Peninsula |
African country
African nation | any one of the countries occupying the African continent |
Asian country
Asian nation | any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent |
South American country
South American nation | any one of the countries occupying the South American continent |
North American country
North American nation | any country on the North American continent |
Central American country
Central American nation | any one of the countries occupying Central America, these countries (except for Belize and Costa Rica) are characterized by low per capita income and unstable governments |
| West Country | the southwestern part of England (including Cornwall and Devon and Somerset) |
Bluegrass
Bluegrass Country
Bluegrass Region | an area in central Kentucky noted for it bluegrass and thoroughbred horses |
| Low Countries | the lowland region of western Europe on the North Sea: Belgium and Luxembourg and the Netherlands |
native
indigen
indigene
aborigine
aboriginal | an indigenous person who was born in a particular place, the art of the natives of the northwest coast, the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students |
| native | a person born in a particular place or country, he is a native of Brazil |
Amerindian
Native American | any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived |
Aborigine Abo
Aboriginal
native Australian
Australian Aborigine | a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived |
Alaska Native
Alaskan Native
Native Alaskan | a member or descendant of any of the aboriginal peoples of Alaska |
| Native Hawaiian | a member or descendant of the indigenous Polynesian people who lived in the Hawaiian Islands |
| country doctor | a doctor who practices in the country (rather than in a city) usually remote from a modern hospital, do country doctors still make house calls? |
| native speaker | a speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood, native speakers of French |
native pomegranate
Capparis arborea | small Australian tree bearing edible fruit resembling the pomegranate |
native orange
Capparis mitchellii | small Australian tree bearing edible dark purple fruit |
native pear
woody pear
Xylomelum pyriforme | tree bearing pear-shaped fruit with a thick woody epicarp |
native cranberry
groundberry ground-berry cranberry heath
Astroloma humifusum
Styphelia humifusum | small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries, sometimes placed in genus Styphelia |