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/nˈætʃərəlˌaɪz/ /nˈætʃrəlˌaɪz/ Listen

Naturalize

verb

(past & past part. naturalized; pres. part. naturalizing)

Make into a citizen. Synonym: naturalise.

Explain with reference to nature.

Adopt to another place. Synonym: naturalise.

Make more natural or lifelike. Synonym: naturalise.

Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment. Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, tame. "Tame the soil"

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"Naturalize" Quotes from Famous Books

... Prize Court out of modern maritime law and the whole system falls, and capture on the sea becomes pure barbarism,—distinguished from piracy only by the astuteness of a legal technicality. The Southern Confederacy could give no guaranty. Just as it undertook to naturalize foreign seamen upon the quarter-deck of its roving cruisers, so it undertook to administer a system of maritime law which precluded the most solemn and important of its provisions— a judicial decision—and converted the humane and legal right of capture into ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... half year to speak very comprehensibly. After this preparatory course of private study, I was sent to the seminary, where particular care was taken both of my mental and physical education. Indeed, so enthusiastic were they to naturalize me, that they actually fastened branches to my body to make me look as much as possible ...

— Niels Klim's journey under the ground • Baron Ludvig Holberg

... plants which you wish to naturalize should be gathered and sowed immediately in a shaded, well drained location, where the soil has ...

— Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 • Various

Words linked to "Naturalize" : flora, alter, naturalization, plant, change, modify, accommodate, adapt, immigrate, plant life, explain, explicate, denaturalize