naturalized

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation

   The word naturalized appears in scientific writing with a precise technical sense.

2. 2
   adj

   planted so as to give an effect of wild growth

   drifts of naturalized daffodils

3. 3
   adj

   Adopted; granted citizenship; belonging after being introduced.

   naturalized citizen

Formed in English by regular derivation or borrowing; used here with its established scientific or literary sense.

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