naturalize
IPA: nˈætʃɝʌɫaɪz
verb
- To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen.
- To acclimatize an animal or plant.
- To make natural
- To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones.
- (linguistics) To make (a word) a natural part of the language, using the native homologue of each phoneme (and often for each morpheme) of the imported word (e.g., native inflections).
- To study nature.
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