domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame: adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment "domesticate oats", "tame the soil"
domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame: overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable "He tames lions for the circus", "reclaim falcons"
domesticate, tame: make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans "The horse was domesticated a long time ago", "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog"
