home-grown

home-grown — adjective

1. grown in your own garden rather than bought from a shop or market; used mainly f

1.形容詞B1
釋義

grown in your own garden rather than bought from a shop or market; used mainly for vegetables, fruit, herbs, and flowers.

例句

Omar picked some home-grown tomatoes and basil from his garden for the pasta sauce.

attributive: home-grown + vegetables (tomatoes, basil)

The community garden supplies home-grown lettuce and carrots to local families.

attributive: home-grown + produce (lettuce, carrots)

同義詞
  • homemade

    broader meaning — includes anything made at home (cakes, furniture), not just plants

  • garden-fresh

    emphasises the freshness and direct-from-garden quality

  • locally grown

    may refer to any nearby farm, not necessarily one's own garden

反義詞

文法句型

home-grown + noun (attributive noun)

be + home-grown (predicative)

用法筆記

Commonly used for vegetables, fruit, herbs, and flowers grown at home rather than on a commercial farm. The hyphen is often dropped (homegrown) in informal or journalistic writing.

常見錯誤

❌I bought some home-grown apples from the supermarket.
✅I bought some home-grown apples from the farmers' market.
💡home-grown means the seller grew them, not that a shop grew them.
❌These are home-grown tomatoes from the grocery store.
✅These are home-grown tomatoes from my uncle's allotment.
💡use home-grown only for produce grown by the person or people you are referring to.

2. created, educated, or produced locally within a specific nation or community rat

2.形容詞B2
釋義

created, educated, or produced locally within a specific nation or community rather than brought in from outside it; describes people, talent, products, ideas, and industries that belong to the place where you live.

例句

The company prefers to hire home-grown talent from the university's engineering programme.

collocation: home-grown talent

Taipei has a lively home-grown fashion scene with young designers opening their own shops.

attributive: home-grown + cultural/creative domain (fashion scene)

同義詞
  • domestic

    more formal and used at the country level (domestic products vs imported ones)

  • local

    smaller in scale — could refer to a town or region rather than a whole country

  • native

    stronger link to birth or origin; native talent can imply natural ability rather than training

反義詞
  • imported

    brought in from another country

  • foreign

    coming from outside the country or area

文法句型

home-grown + noun (attributive)

be + home-grown (predicative: talent/industry)

用法筆記

Often carries a positive connotation of pride in local talent, products, or solutions. Commonly used in discussions of culture, music, technology, and business. The hyphen may be dropped (homegrown) in informal writing.

常見錯誤

❌She is a home-grown musician from Sydney, but she moved there at age 12.
✅She is a home-grown musician from Sydney
💡she grew up and trained there.' — home-grown implies the person was raised and developed locally, not just living there briefly.