domesticate 的 2 个定义
do·mes·ti·cat·ed, do·mes·ti·cat·ing.
- to convert to domestic uses; tame.
- to tame, especially by generations of breeding, to live in close association with human beings as a pet or work animal and usually creating a dependency so that the animal loses its ability to live in the wild.
- to adapt so as to be cultivated by and beneficial to human beings.
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do·mes·ti·cat·ed, do·mes·ti·cat·ing.
- to be domestic.
domesticate 近义词
tame; habituate
更多domesticate例句
- Even weirder, the source of these proteins relies on viral genes domesticated eons ago by our own genome through evolution.
- Unlike their domesticated counterparts, the wolf puppies spent 12 to 24 hours a day in human care from about 10 days after birth up to and throughout the testing period.
- Until now, SibFox was the closest anyone in the US had gotten to receiving a domesticated fox.
- In fact, dogs are such great friends that humans probably domesticated them not once, but twice.
- As he did, he began a one-man crusade to scour the planet collecting crop varieties that were disease resistant and might also shed light on the evolution of domesticated plants.
- Humans spent a long time domesticating cattle, and what they were trying to do, in essence, was de-domesticate them.
- As Sandra Bullock has found out, any attempt to domesticate them will end in a resounding failure.
- By marginalizing certain political tendencies, the European approach makes it harder to domesticate them.
- I know a pretty woman from a plain one, I hope, even though I dont personally want to domesticate the recording angel.
- The hunter is thought to have been seized, one fine day, with an impulse to domesticate animals instead of hunting them.
- His place was well named for he was a great horticulturist, the first to domesticate the Catawba grape.
- They have now begun to domesticate certain species of Meliponas, by introducing them into earthen pots or wooden cases.
- They seem somewhat like the buffalo and other wild animals that we have never been able to domesticate.