4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: naturalized adj 1: 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}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 35 Moby Thesaurus words for "naturalized": Americanized, Anglicized, acclimated, acclimatized, accommodated, acculturated, acculturized, accustomed, adapted, adjusted, adopted, assimilated, case-hardened, changed, conditioned, converted, experienced, familiarized, hardened, indoctrinated, inured, orientated, oriented, reborn, redeemed, reformed, regenerated, renewed, run-in, seasoned, trained, transformed, used to, wont, wonted
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