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Domesticate vs Semidomestic - What's the difference?

domesticate | semidomestic |

As a verb domesticate

is to make domestic.

As a noun domesticate

is an animal or plant that has been domesticated.

As an adjective semidomestic is

partially domesticated; accustomed to living together with humans.

domesticate

English

Verb

(domesticat)
  • To make domestic.
  • To make fit for domestic life.
  • To adapt to live with humans.
  • The Russian claims to have successfully domesticated foxes.
  • To adapt to live with humans.
  • Dogs have clearly domesticated more than cats.
  • To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An animal or plant that has been domesticated.
  • semidomestic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Partially domesticated; accustomed to living together with humans
  • *{{quote-news, 1988, January 8, Jerry Sullivan, Field & Street, Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=City birds are often semidomestic , depending on humans to provide food and habitat. }}