Relating to the place or time of one's birth.
nat+al
Shared component: nat · birth
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nat
birth
Related forms: nat · 13 words in this dictionary
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Shared components, not spelling prefixesA large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.
nat+ion
Shared component: nat · birth
associated with the place or circumstances of a person's birth
nat+ive
Shared component: nat · birth
The physical world and everything in it (such as plants, animals, mountains, oceans, stars, etc.) that is not made by people
nat+ure
Shared component: nat · birth
Relating to a nation as a whole
nation+al
Shared component: nat · birth
relating to the period before birth.
pre+natal
Shared component: nat · birth
In a way that exists from birth; as a natural and essential part of something or someone.
in+nate+ly
Shared component: nat · birth
The occasion of a person's birth, or the circumstances relating to it.
nat+ivity
Shared component: nat · birth
relating to a newborn child or the first few weeks after birth.
neo+natal
Shared component: nat · birth
relating to the medical care given to pregnant women before their babies are born.
ante+natal
Shared component: nat · birth
relating to the time, usually a few weeks, immediately before and after birth.
peri+nat+al
Shared component: nat · birth
relating to or occurring in the period after childbirth.
post+nat+al
Shared component: nat · birth
the branch of medicine concerned with the care and treatment of newborn babies, especially those who are ill or born prematurely.
neo+natal+ology
Shared component: nat · birth