domestication

Meaning

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants.
  2. (countable, uncountable) The act of domesticating, or making a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
  3. (countable, uncountable) The act of domesticating a text.

Synonyms

plant domestication

naturalizing strategy

cultural filtering

animal domestication

Etymology

From domesticate + -ion.

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