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naturalized

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.

  2. planted randomly in soil so as to give an appearance of wild growth; as, drifts of naturalized daffodils.

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naturalized

alt. (en-past of: naturalize) vb. (en-past of: naturalize)

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naturalized
  1. adj. introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation [syn: established]

  2. planted so as to give an effect of wild growth; "drifts of naturalized daffodils" [syn: naturalised]

Usage examples of "naturalized".

Widow--and to tell the truth, she was not far out of the way, and with Helen Darley as a foil anybody would know she must be foudroyant and pyramidal,--if these French adjectives may be naturalized for this one particular exigency.

New Texas, Andrew Jackson Hickock resigned, married a daughter of a local rancher and became a naturalized citizen of that planet.

California statute prohibiting the issuance of fishing licenses to persons ineligible to citizenship is disallowed, both on the basis of Amendment XIV and on the ground that the statute invaded a field of power reserved to the National Government, namely, the determination of the conditions on which aliens may be admitted, naturalized, and permitted to reside in the United States.

Alphonse Winterton, but one Alphonse Spenser had become a naturalized Canadian citizen as of October, 1974, and had at that time listed his residence as Squamish, British Columbia.

The only qualification for the elective franchise the American system can logically insist on is that the elector belong to the territorial people--that is, be a natural-born or a naturalized citizen, be a major in full possession of his natural faculties, and unconvicted of any infamous offence.

He had become a naturalized Englishman, but he never carried his anglophilia to the point of being puritan, or even respectable.

He was a naturalized American citizen and was serving his second term for using the mails to promote a Ponzi scheme.

Spirit and Hope were foreign-born, technically, as they had come from the independent satellite of Callisto and had been naturalized as full Jupiter citizens when they left the Navy.

From the extraordinary manner in which European productions have recently spread over New Zealand, and have seized on places which must have been previously occupied, we may believe, if all the animals and plants of Great Britain were set free in New Zealand, that in the course of time a multitude of British forms would become thoroughly naturalized there, and would exterminate many of the natives.

It seems to be a natural anglicization that started soon after the 'Indian Cress' was naturalized (from Peru, I think) in the 18th century.

No doubt many plants, besides the cardoon and fennel, are naturalized.

Buzzell was a place where they had naturalized the monoped sea creature, Cholister, whose abraded carapace produced marvelous tumors, one of the most valued jewels in the universe.

It had become naturalized in North America prior to 1672, as we find it mentioned in a work published in that year among the plants 'sprung up since the English planted and kept cattle in New England.

He was a British tax exile, a naturalized Bruneian, who had shown up in the late '90s after the oil crash.

The Arrowhead is a water plant widely distributed in Europe and Northern Asia, as well as North America, and abundant in many parts of England, though only naturalized in Scotland.