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naturalized |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Naturalize \Nat"u*ral*ize\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Naturalized}; p. pr & vb n. {Naturalizing}.] [Cf. F. naturaliser See {Natural}.] 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. --Hawthorne. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: naturalized adj 1: introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation [syn: {established}] 2: planted so as to give an effect of wild growth; "drifts of naturalized daffodils"
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