'Naturalized' definitions:

Definition of 'naturalized'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation [syn: established, naturalized]
adjective
Planted so as to give an effect of wild growth; "drifts of naturalized daffodils" [syn: naturalized, naturalised]

Definition of 'Naturalized'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]

Definition of 'naturalized'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]

Synonyms of 'naturalized'

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