Definition of: naturalize

(nach′ər·əl·īz) v. ·ized, ·iz·ing v.t.
1. To confer the rights and privileges of citizenship upon, as an alien.
2. To adopt (a foreign word, custom, etc.) into the common use of a country or area.
3. To adapt (a foreign plant, animal, etc.) to the environment of a country or area.
4. To explain by natural laws: to naturalize a miracle.
5. To make natural; free from conventionality.
—v.i.
6. To become as if native; adapt. Also Brit. nat′u·ral·ise.
—nat′u·ral·iz′er noun