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natu·ral·ize (nac̸h′ər əl īz′, nac̸h′rə līz′)

transitive verb -·ized′, -·iz′·ing

  1. to confer the rights of citizenship upon (an alien)
  2. to adopt and make common (a custom, word, etc.) from another country or place
  3. to adapt (a plant or animal) to a new environment; acclimate
  4. to explain (occurrences) by natural law, rejecting supernatural influence
  5. to make natural or less artificial; free from conventionality

Etymology: Fr naturaliser: see natural & -ize

intransitive verb

  1. to become naturalized, or as if native
  2. to study nature

naturalize Related Forms

nat′u·rali·za′·tion noun

naturalize Synonyms

naturalize

v.

confer citizenship upon, adapt, acclimate, accustom; see adopt 2, change 1, conform.

naturalize Usage Examples

Object

  • citizen: He was 26, a small, slender man, 5 feet 4 inches tall, who had just become a naturalized citizen.
  • epistemology: A realist response to this kind of incommensurability may appeal to externalist or naturalized epistemology.
  • bulb: In every garden there is a suitable place for naturalizing flower bulbs.
  • concept: Following these four exercises in critical thinking, a few suggestions are offered about the emergence of a naturalized concept of karma.
  • specie: C5 Vagrant naturalized species - species from established naturalized populations abroad, e.g. possibly some Ruddy Shelducks Tadorna ferruginea occurring in Britain.
  • population: C5 Vagrant naturalized species - species from established naturalized populations abroad, e.g. possibly some Ruddy Shelducks Tadorna ferruginea occurring in Britain.

Modifying Another Word

  • not: The measure might some immigrants naturalized not been any summary measures of.
  • widely: Grassland; commonly cultivated as a fodder plant and widely naturalized.
  • well: It also does well naturalized among grass if you have room for a meadow area that is only mowed once or twice a year.
  • fully: In order to become whole people, we must become fully naturalized citizens of this world only.

Preposition: in

  • grass: The more vigorous species can be naturalized in short grass.
  • part: An annual coming from Europe and north Africa, borage is naturalized in many parts of North America.