What is "naturalised"

Usage examples of "naturalised".

In such cases the geometrical ratio of increase, the result of which never fails to be surprising, simply explains the extraordinarily rapid increase and wide diffusion of naturalised productions in their new homes.

That climate acts in main part indirectly by favouring other species, we may clearly see in the prodigious number of plants in our gardens which can perfectly well endure our climate, but which never become naturalised, for they cannot compete with our native plants, nor resist destruction by our native animals.

Thus, also, it is that continental productions have everywhere become so largely naturalised on islands.

Probably no region is as yet fully stocked, for at the Cape of Good Hope, where more species of plants are crowded together than in any other quarter of the world, some foreign plants have become naturalised, without causing, as far as we know, the extinction of any natives.

It might, also, perhaps have been expected that naturalised plants would have belonged to a few groups more especially adapted to certain stations in their new homes.

We thus see that these naturalised plants are of a highly diversified nature.

I could not even understand how some naturalised species have rapidly spread throughout the same country.

Helena there is reason to believe that the naturalised plants and animals have nearly or quite exterminated many native productions.

Flint, of Louisiana, has published a volume of poems which ought to be naturalised here.

Alternatively, I undertake to pay off the balance of the mortgage on your current sleeve here on Earth and you may become a naturalised UN citizen.

Van Blaricom and MacGregor had been naturalised by having their shoulders lanced with a spear-point, and then rubbed against the lanced shoulders of the chiefs.