naturalize
    v 1: make into a citizen; "The French family was naturalized
         last year" [syn: naturalize, naturalise] [ant:
         denaturalise, denaturalize]
    2: explain with reference to nature
    3: adopt to another place; "The stories had become naturalized
       into an American setting" [syn: naturalize, naturalise]
    4: make more natural or lifelike [syn: naturalize,
       naturalise] [ant: denaturalise, denaturalize]
    5: adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment;
       "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" [syn: domesticate,
       cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame]

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.
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   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.
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   3. To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to
      make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.
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   4. To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to
      cause to grow as under natural conditions.
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            Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might
            yet be naturalized in the New England climate.
                                                  --Hawthorne.
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Naturalize \Nat"u*ral*ize\, v. i.
   1. To become as if native.
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   2. To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the
      exclusion of the supernatural.
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            Infected by this naturalizing tendency. --H.
                                                  Bushnell.
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