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1. Planted so as to give an effect of wild growth
   "drifts of naturalised daffodils";
   - naturalized
    
2. Introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation
   - established, naturalized

1. Adopt to another place
   "The stories had become naturalised into an American setting";
   - naturalize
    
2. Make more natural or lifelike
   - naturalize
    
3. Make into a citizen
   "The French family was naturalised last year";
   - naturalize
    
4. Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
   - domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, tame
    
5. Explain with reference to nature
   - naturalize

See also: foreign, planted, strange

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

Encyclopedia: Naturalised