1. One's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next
   - mother tongue, first language

Type of: natural language, tongue

• short leg
• short letter
• short line
• short pants
• short ribs
• short sale
• short saphenous vein
• short selling
• short shrift
• short sleep
• short sleeve
• short story
• short subject
• short temper
• short time
• short ton
• short wave
• short whist
• Short's aster
• short-beaked
• short-billed
• short-billed marsh wren
• short-bodied
• short-change
• short-circuit