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Adjective: naturalized  'na-chu-ru,lIzd
  1. Introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation
    - established, naturalised [Brit]
     
  2. Planted so as to give an effect of wild growth
    "drifts of naturalized daffodils";
    - naturalised [Brit]
Verb: naturalize  'na-chu-ru,lIz
  1. Make into a citizen
    "The French family was naturalized last year";
    - naturalise [Brit]
     
  2. Explain with reference to nature
    - naturalise [Brit]
     
  3. Adopt to another place
    "The stories had become naturalized into an American setting";
    - naturalise [Brit]
     
  4. Make more natural or lifelike
    - naturalise [Brit]
     
  5. Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
    - domesticate, cultivate, naturalise [Brit], tame

See also: foreign, planted, strange

Type of: accommodate, adapt, alter, change, explain, explicate, modify

Antonym: denaturalize

Encyclopedia: Naturalized

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