domesticated
驯化的,驯化,驯养的,驯化了的
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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.
- : to accustom to household life or affairs.
- : to take for one's own use or purposes; adopt.
- : to make more ordinary, familiar, acceptable, or the like: to domesticate radical ideas.
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do·mes·ti·cat·ed, do·mes·ti·cat·ing.
- : to be domestic.
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The results suggest that people domesticated dogs sometime before 23,000 years ago in Siberia, where isolated groups of wolves and people were struggling to survive the Last Glacial Maximum.
Those barks were a useful reminder that although he is domesticated, he is an animal.
By retaining a hint of wildness that the modern world has long buried, dogs — these domesticated wolves — represent a source of forgotten knowledge.
Though Vulpes vulpes, the silver fox, is distantly related to wolves and dogs, it had never before been domesticated.
The fact is, those are very tame and domesticated versions of a full-on inquiry into origins.
Cats were domesticated roughly ten thousand years before cat videos.
We sink into the domesticated blandness of our interchangeable, modern-era selves.
They projected sexual charisma, to be sure, but it was a charisma that was tamed and domesticated for their youngest female fans.
He compared the sizes of domesticated animals everywhere he went.
The Cat, the little Tyger of our island, whose natural home is the forest, is equally domesticated and caressed.
Now and then a blue pigeon, like the ancestral form, crops up in a pure breed of domesticated birds.