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Definitions for: Naturalize
[v] adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"
[v] make into a citizen; "The French family was naturalized last year"
[v] make more natural or lifelike
[v] adopt to another place; "The stories had become naturalized into an American setting"
[v] explain with reference to nature
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
Nat"u*ral*ize, 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. --H.
Bushnell.
Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, tame
Antonyms: denaturalise, denaturalize
See Also: accommodate, adapt, alter, change, explain, explicate, immigrate
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