[syn: naturalized, naturalised]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
naturalized \naturalized\ adj.
1. Acclimated to a new environment; introduced from another
region and persisting without cultivation; -- of plants or
animals not native to a location. [WordNet sense 1 & 3]
Syn: domesticated, nonnative.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. planted randomly in soil so as to give an appearance of
wild growth; as, drifts of naturalized daffodils.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Naturalize \Nat"u*ral*ize\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Naturalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Naturalizing.] [Cf. F.
naturaliser. See Natural.]
1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.
[1913 Webster]
2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or
citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner
into a nation or state, and place in the condition of a
native subject.
[1913 Webster]
3. To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to
make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.
[1913 Webster]
4. To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to
cause to grow as under natural conditions.
[1913 Webster]
Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might
yet be naturalized in the New England climate.
--Hawthorne.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
naturalized
adj 1: introduced from another region and persisting without
cultivation [syn: established, naturalized]
2: planted so as to give an effect of wild growth; "drifts of
naturalized daffodils" [syn: naturalized, naturalised]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "naturalized":
Americanized, Anglicized, acclimated, acclimatized, accommodated,
acculturated, acculturized, accustomed, adapted, adjusted, adopted,
assimilated, case-hardened, changed, conditioned, converted,
experienced, familiarized, hardened, indoctrinated, inured,
orientated, oriented, reborn, redeemed, reformed, regenerated,
renewed, run-in, seasoned, trained, transformed, used to, wont,
wonted