Hypertext Webster Gateway: "naturalized"

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) 1.7 (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" [syn: {naturalised}]


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