naturalize
verb🔊/ˈnætʃrəlaɪz/
🔊/ˈnætʃrəlaɪz/
(British English also naturalise)
[usually passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they naturalize | 🔊/ˈnætʃrəlaɪz/ 🔊/ˈnætʃrəlaɪz/ |
| he / she / it naturalizes | 🔊/ˈnætʃrəlaɪzɪz/ 🔊/ˈnætʃrəlaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple naturalized | 🔊/ˈnætʃrəlaɪzd/ 🔊/ˈnætʃrəlaɪzd/ |
| past participle naturalized | 🔊/ˈnætʃrəlaɪzd/ 🔊/ˈnætʃrəlaɪzd/ |
| -ing form naturalizing | 🔊/ˈnætʃrəlaɪzɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈnætʃrəlaɪzɪŋ/ |
- [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年被归化为英国公民。
- [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. 灰松鼠现在在英国归化。
- [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.