Naturalises vs Naturalizes - What's the difference?
naturalises | naturalizes |
(naturalise)
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(naturalize)
To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen
To acclimatize an animal or plant
* Hawthorne
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.
As verbs the difference between naturalises and naturalizes
is that naturalises is third-person singular of naturalise while naturalizes is third-person singular of naturalize.naturalises
English
Verb
(head)naturalise
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Verb
(naturalis)Anagrams
* ----naturalizes
English
Verb
(head)naturalize
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Alternative forms
* naturaliseVerb
(en-verb)- Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate.
- Custom naturalizes labour or study.
- English speakers have naturalized the French word "café".