naturalize

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To grant full citizenship to (one of foreign birth).
2. v. To adopt (something foreign) into general use.
3. v. To adapt or acclimate (a plant or animal) to a new environment; introduce and establish as if native.
4. v. To cause to conform to nature.
5. v. To become naturalized or acclimated; undergo adaptation.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To reduce to a state of nature: identify with, or make a part of, nature.
2. To make natural; render easy and familiar by custom and habit.
3. To confer the rights and privileges of a natural subject or citizen upon; receive under sanction and form of law as a citizen or subject. See naturalization.
4. To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; incorporate into ormake part and parcel of a language; receive into the original or common stock: as, to naturalize a foreign word or expression.
5. So to adapt to new conditions of life that those conditions shall appear to be native to the person or thing naturalized; to introduce and acclimatize or cause to thrive as if indigenous: as, to naturalize a foreign plant or animal.
6. In musical notation, to apply a natural or cancel (♮) to.
7. To explain phenomena by natural laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural.
8. To become like a native.
9. To become a citizen of another than one's native country. Also spelled naturalise.

Wiktionary

1. v. To grant citizenship to someone born abroad
2. v. To acclimatize an animal or plant
3. v. To make to appear more natural
4. v. To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones
5. v. linguistics To make (a word) a natural part of (the language)

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To make natural.
2. v. 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.
3. v. To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own.
4. v. To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions.
5. v. To become as if native.
6. v. To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. adopt to another place
2. v. make into a citizen
3. v. adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
4. v. make more natural or lifelike
5. v. explain with reference to nature