naturalize
Make a citizen
To naturalize is to grant citizenship to a foreign-born person, making them legally equivalent to native-born citizens: She was naturalized after five years of residency.
The word extends to introducing foreign plants or animals so they thrive as if native: Dandelions have naturalized across North America.
More abstractly, to naturalize something is to make it seem normal or inevitable—what was once foreign becomes unremarkable: The practice has become so naturalized that no one questions it.
Adjust to environment
- adaptModify for new conditions
- habituateMake accustomed through repetition
- adjustChange to fit better
- conditionState or stipulation
accustom · familiarize · attune · season · harden · toughen · inure · temper
Adopt another group's practices
- integrateCombine into unified whole
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- enculturationAcquiring cultural norms unconsciously
- adaptModify for new conditions
conform · absorb · blend · incorporate · socialize · indigenize · mainstream · adopt
Finest taxonomic rank
- invasiveEncroaching without welcome
- exoticStrikingly unusual, foreign-seeming
- nonnativeNot indigenous to a place
- alienNon-native being
flora · fauna · introduce · establish · colonize · spread · transplant · import
Formal binding promise
- allegianceLoyalty owed to authority
- passportGovernment-issued travel credential
- immigrationRelocating abroad permanently
- citizenLegal national member
nationality · swearing-in · consulate · embassy · visa · expatriate · repatriation · documentation
acclimate
Adjust to environment
condition · accustom · familiarize · attune · season · harden · toughen · inure · temper · weather
acculturate
Adopt another group's practices
- integrateCombine into unified whole
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- enculturationAcquiring cultural norms unconsciously
adapt · conform · absorb · blend · incorporate · socialize · indigenize · mainstream · adopt · embrace
species
Finest taxonomic rank
- invasiveEncroaching without welcome
- exoticStrikingly unusual, foreign-seeming
- nonnativeNot indigenous to a place
alien · flora · fauna · introduce · establish · colonize · spread · transplant · import · habitat
oath
Formal binding promise
- allegianceLoyalty owed to authority
- passportGovernment-issued travel credential
- immigrationRelocating abroad permanently
citizen · nationality · swearing-in · consulate · embassy · visa · expatriate · repatriation · documentation · petition
cultivar
Bred plant variety
wildflower · propagate · hardy · specimen · landscape · ornamental · escape · volunteer · meadow · woodland
naturalizedenaturalize
Revoke citizenship status
deport · expatriate · exile · expel · disenfranchise
naturalizeeradicate
Destroy completely, utterly
extirpate · remove · uproot · eliminate · exterminate
naturalizedenaturalize
Revoke citizenship status
problematize · other · alienate · exoticize · defamiliarize
- naturalized citizenForeign-born person granted membership
- naturalization papersOfficial immigrant acceptance documents
- naturalization ceremonyOfficial event conferring citizenship
- amateur naturalistHobbyist who studies wildlife
- naturalized speciesNon-indigenous organism now self-sustaining
- naturalization processLegal path to citizenship
naturalist, naturalistic, naturalism, naturalization, naturalized, naturalizing, naturalizes, naturalised, naturalisation