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What does naturalize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word naturalize? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen
  2. To acclimatize an animal or plant
  3. To make natural
  4. To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones
  5. (linguistics) To make (a word) a natural part of the language.
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Tulips, as a rule, do not naturalize well, and most species are therefore planted annually.
Against any tendency to naturalize evil, Julian sees evil as profoundly unnatural, unkind.
Even the Supreme Court was not as willing to allow Asian immigrants to naturalize.
And they wanted to naturalize morality — to locate the foundations of morals somewhere else than in revelation and fear of eternal damnation.
Students and volunteers planted 560 trees and shrubs over 15 sites across York Region to help naturalize shorelines.
He is successful to the extent that he can define himself as national spokesman in order to naturalize the nation as family metaphor.

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