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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]

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, naturalization, planted, strange

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

Antonym: denaturalize

Encyclopedia: Naturalize