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/nˈætʃərəlˌaɪzd/ /nˈætʃrəlˌaɪzd/ Listen

verb

Naturalize v. t. (past & past part. naturalized; pres. part. naturalizing)

1.

To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.

2.

To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of a native subject.

3.

To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.

4.

To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions. "Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate."

Naturalize v. i.

1.

To become as if native.

2.

To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural. "Infected by this naturalizing tendency."

adjective

naturalized adj.

1.

Acclimated to a new environment; introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation; of plants or animals not native to a location.

Synonyms: domesticated, nonnative.

2.

Planted randomly in soil so as to give an appearance of wild growth; as, drifts of naturalized daffodils.

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Etymology of 'Naturalized'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Naturalized" Quotes from Famous Books

... foreign flowers, commonly grown in our gardens here, might soon become naturalized Americans were we only generous enough to lift a few plants, scatter a few seeds over our fences into the fields and roadsides—to raise the bars of their prison, as it were, and let them free! Many have run away, to be sure. Once across ...

— Wild Flowers Worth Knowing • Neltje Blanchan et al

... now in the twenty-third year of my residence in this island; and was so naturalized to the place, and the manner of living, that could I have but enjoyed the certainty that no savages would come to the place to disturb me, I could have been content to have capitulated for spending the rest of my time there, even to the last moment, till I had laid me down and died, like the ...

— The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Of York, Mariner, Vol. 1 • Daniel Defoe

... persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the ...

— Democracy In America, Volume 2 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville

... Hauptwald, alias Ramblethorne, had succeeded in evading the hue and cry after his escape on Harley Bank, and had continued to remain hidden in the house of a naturalized German in Cheshire until the search for ...

— The Submarine Hunters - A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War • Percy F. Westerman

... religion of the Cross, however much it might in its inmost character be opposed to the nature of the German people and their essential healthiness, was felt no longer as something alien. It had become naturalized, but had lost in the process its very core. The preparation for a life after death, which was its Alpha and Omega, had passed into the background. It was not joy at the promised 'Redemption' that expressed itself in the dance around the cradle; ...

— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles

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