naturalized
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- adjective
- /ˈnæʧərəˌlaɪzd/
- Specialized
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naturalizado
- And coming back up this way, you can see some hollyhocks and they just naturalized down in here and then out this way.
- naturalized citizen
Examples
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Later, when I was an adult, he became a naturalized citizen.
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"Far more often, the parents aren't naturalized."
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So I was first generation until my father was naturalized, at which time I became second generation.
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Far more often, the parents aren't naturalized, in which case they're not Americans at all.
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A foreigner living in America, whether he is an illegal alien, a legal resident alien, or a naturalized citizen, is "the immigrant."
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The garden is full of naturalized wildflowers that thrive without any help from gardeners.
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Many species have become naturalized in the region, adapting well to local conditions.
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After years of growth, the imported species is now naturalized and reproduces on its own.
Synonyms
A plant or animal from another place that now lives in the wild without help from people
How Established
Surface Forms
Morphology
naturalized = naturalize (transparent) = natural + ize + ed
This adjectival sense ('introduced and established') is the expected result of being 'naturalized' from the verb 'naturalize', so the morphological relation is straightforward.
Etymology
Naturalized comes from nature ('the natural world') and the ending -ize which means 'to make'. So a naturalized animal or plant from another place has been 'made' part of the local nature and can live and have young without help, behaving much like a native.