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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

... act, declaring them naturalized as British subjects, has only rendered them legally amenable to the English criminal law, and added one more anomaly to all the other enactments affecting them. This naturalization excludes them from sitting on a jury, or appearing as witnesses, and entails a most ...

— Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central • Edward John Eyre

... far as we can gather from the details, were brought about by the greatest possible imprudence on their part. However, I may say without hesitation, no people dread The Desert so much, and have in them so little of the spirit of enterprise and African discovery, as the naturalized Europeans of Tunis and Tripoli, and other parts of Barbary. To purchase the co-operation of a volunteer in these countries would require more money than defraying the expense of an expedition, and after all, from the love of intrigue and double-dealing which Europeans long resident ...

— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson

... varieties, native or naturalized, are found in Great Britain; more than twelve varieties belong to the United States. The more valuable varieties found in this country have been introduced from Europe, unless it be the small white clover (Trifolium ...

— Clovers and How to Grow Them • Thomas Shaw

... from Denmark; like Treitschke, who came from Saxony, Prince von Buelow is not a Prussian. Like Bluecher, his family originates from the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg, that strange paradise of a medieval and feudal Junkerthum. But, like most of the naturalized servants of the Hohenzollern, von Buelow proved even more Prussian than any native of Pomerania or Brandenburg. The son of one of Bismarck's trusted lieutenants, he always remained a loyal pupil of the Iron Chancellor. It is ...

— German Problems and Personalities • Charles Sarolea

... from my clearing, and I thought that it might be worth the while to keep a cockerel for his music merely, as a singing bird. The note of this once wild Indian pheasant is certainly the most remarkable of any bird's, and if they could be naturalized without being domesticated, it would soon become the most famous sound in our woods, surpassing the clangor of the goose and the hooting of the owl; and then imagine the cackling of the hens to fill the pauses ...

— Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience • Henry David Thoreau

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