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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
domesticated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
animal
▪ The husbandry of domesticated animals should ensure that their physiological and ethological needs are fulfilled.
▪ Such debris from the practice of fishing leads to great suffering among wildlife and also among domesticated animals.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The area is populated by domesticated birds such as geese and turkeys.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As with truffles, however, morels have until now resisted Joining the ranks of domesticated fungi.
▪ But perhaps with her looks she wasn't the domesticated sort.
▪ Cheers, Ellie, you've quite domesticated him.
▪ I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world.
▪ I would stick to domesticated species, such as Goldfish or Koi.
▪ The husbandry of domesticated animals should ensure that their physiological and ethological needs are fulfilled.
▪ When was the cat first domesticated?
▪ Wild specimens should also be bred with domesticated stock to introduce new bloodlines.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
domesticated

domesticated \domesticated\ adj.

  1. tame, tamed; -- of animals. Opposite of wild.

    Syn: domestic.

  2. accustomed to home life; as, some men think it unmanly to be domesticated; others find gratification in it.

  3. acclimated to a new environment; -- of plants or animals.

    Syn: naturalized, nonnative.

Wiktionary
domesticated
  1. (qualifier: of an animal or a plant, especially a pet) selectively bred to live with or around humans. v

  2. (en-past of: domesticate)

WordNet
domesticated
  1. adj. converted or adapted to domestic use; "domestic animals"; "domesticated plants like maize" [syn: domestic]

  2. accustomed to home life; "some men think it unmanly to be domesticated; others find gratification in it"

Usage examples of "domesticated".

Whenever some scientist claims to have discovered “the earliest X”—whether X is the earliest human fossil in Europe, the earliest evidence of domesticated corn in Mexico, or the earliest anything anywhere—that announcement challenges other scientists to beat the claim by finding something still earlier.

Whichever theory proves correct, most large wild mammal species that might otherwise have later been domesticated by Native Americans were thereby removed.

The ultimate ancestors of all modern Polynesian populations shared essentially the same culture, language, technology, and set of domesticated plants and animals.

Polynesian food production depended mainly on agriculture, which was impossible at subantarctic latitudes because all Polynesian crops were tropical ones initially domesticated outside Polynesia and brought in by colonists.

The humans who domesticated animals were the first to fall victim to the newly evolved germs, but those humans then evolved substantial resistance to the new diseases.

In most other places it was instead imported, in the form of crops and livestock that had been domesticated elsewhere.

Most domesticated plant and animal species differ morphologically from their wild ancestors: for example, in the smaller size of domestic cattle and sheep, the larger size of domestic chickens and apples, the thinner and smoother seed coats of domestic peas, and the corkscrew-twisted rather than scimitar-shaped horns of domestic goats.

Hence remains of domesticated plants and animals at a dated archaeological site can be recognized and provide strong evidence of food production at that place and time, whereas finding the remains only of wild species at a site fails to provide evidence of food production and is compatible with hunting-gathering.

Naturally, food producers, especially early ones, continued to gather some wild plants and hunt wild animals, so the food remains at their sites often include wild species as well as domesticated ones.

One might therefore have been deceived into supposing that chickpeas were domesticated in India.

The interpretation that chickpeas were actually domesticated there is supported by the fact that the oldest finds of possibly domesticated chickpeas in Neolithic archaeological sites come from southeastern Turkey and nearby northern Syria that date to around 8000 B.

For instance, India’s zebu breeds of domestic cattle possess humps lacking in western Eurasian cattle breeds, and genetic analyses show that the ancestors of modern Indian and western Eurasian cattle breeds diverged from each other hundreds of thousands of years ago, long before any animals were domesticated anywhere.

That is, cattle were domesticated independently in India and western Eurasia, within the last 10,000 years, starting with wild Indian and western Eurasian cattle subspecies that had diverged hundreds of thousands of years earlier.

Although indigenous wild plants were undoubtedly domesticated in Africa’s Sahel zone just south of the Sahara, cattle herding may have preceded agriculture there, and it is not yet certain whether those were independently domesticated Sahel cattle or, instead, domestic cattle of Fertile Crescent origin whose arrival triggered local plant domestication.

The next group of areas consists of ones that did domesticate at least a couple of local plants or animals, but where food production depended mainly on crops and animals that were domesticated elsewhere.