naturalize
verb(British English also naturalise)
[usually passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they naturalize | |
| he / she / it naturalizes | |
| past simple naturalized | |
| past participle naturalized | |
| -ing form naturalizing |
- [transitive] naturalize somebody
to make somebody who was not born in a particular country a citizen of that country 使加入…国籍；使成为某国公民；归化 a naturalized American who was born in Poland 出生于波兰而入美国籍的人 He was naturalized as a British citizen in 1940. 他于1940年加入英国国籍。
- [transitive] naturalize something
to introduce a plant or an animal to a country where it is not native 引进（动植物）；移植 The grey squirrel is now naturalized in Britain. 灰松鼠现已引入英国。
- [intransitive]
(of a plant or an animal 动植物 to start growing or living naturally in a country where it is not native 适应异域生长环境
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from French naturaliser, from Old French natural, from Latin naturalis, from natura ‘birth, nature, quality’, from nat- ‘born’, from the verb nasci.