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domesticate
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As a verb, domesticate means make domestic. As a noun, it means an animal or plant that has been domesticated.
Meanings of domesticate
9 meaningsverb
To make domestic.
To make (more) fit for domestic life.
To adapt to live with humans.
“The Russians claim to have successfully domesticated foxes.”
To adapt to live with humans.
“Dogs have clearly domesticated more than cats.”
To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
translation studiesTo amend the elements of a text to fit local culture.
Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
“domesticate oats”
“tame the soil”
Similar: cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame
noun
An animal or plant that has been domesticated.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).