Naturalize - What does it mean?

naturalize

* naturalise

(en-verb)

To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen

To acclimatize an animal or plant

* Hawthorne

Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate.

To make natural

Custom naturalizes labour or study.

To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones

(linguistics) To make (a word) a natural part of the language.

English speakers have naturalized the French word "café".

In English, foreign words are typically written in italics until they are naturalized .