naturalize

Verb

• adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
  • domesticate oats
    
  • tame the soil
    

• make more natural or lifelike

• adopt to another place
  • The stories had become naturalized into an American setting
    

• explain with reference to nature

• make into a citizen
  • The French family was naturalized last year
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  domesticate , cultivate , naturalise , tame
• Antonyms: 
  denaturalize , denaturalise