naturalized

4 definitions found

naturalized - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  naturalized \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. [WordNet sense 1 & 3]
  
     Syn: domesticated, nonnative.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. planted randomly in soil so as to give an appearance of
        wild growth; as, drifts of naturalized daffodils.
        [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

  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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to
        make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to
        cause to grow as under natural conditions.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might
              yet be naturalized in the New England climate.
                                                    --Hawthorne.
        [1913 Webster]

naturalized - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  naturalized
      adj 1: introduced from another region and persisting without
             cultivation [syn: established, naturalized]
      2: planted so as to give an effect of wild growth; "drifts of
         naturalized daffodils" [syn: naturalized, naturalised]

naturalized - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "naturalized":
     Americanized, Anglicized, acclimated, acclimatized, accommodated,
     acculturated, acculturized, accustomed, adapted, adjusted, adopted,
     assimilated, case-hardened, changed, conditioned, converted,
     experienced, familiarized, hardened, indoctrinated, inured,
     orientated, oriented, reborn, redeemed, reformed, regenerated,
     renewed, run-in, seasoned, trained, transformed, used to, wont,
     wonted