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The answer DOMESTICATE has 8 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of domesticate in various dictionaries:
verb - adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
verb - overcome the wildness of
verb - make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
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Tame (an animal) and keep it as a pet or on a farm. |
tame (an animal) and keep it as a pet or on a farm. |
to bring animals or plants under human control in order to provide food, power, or company: |
to bring animals or plants under human control so that humans may use them as food, for power, or as friends |
make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans |
overcome the wildness of make docile and tractable |
adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment |
To cause to feel comfortable at home make domestic. |
To adopt or make fit for domestic use or life. |
To train or adapt (an animal or plant) to live in a human environment and be of use to humans. |
Domesticate might refer to |
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Domestication is a sustained multi-generational relationship in which one group of organisms assumes a significant degree of influence over the reproduction and care of another group to secure a more predictable supply of resources from that second group. Charles Darwin recognized the small number of traits that made domestic species different from their wild ancestors. He was also the first to recognize the difference between conscious selective breeding in which humans directly select for desirable traits, and unconscious selection where traits evolve as a by-product of natural selection or from selection on other traits. There is a genetic difference between domestic and wild populations. There is also such a difference between the domestication traits that researchers believe to have been essential at the early stages of domestication, and the improvement traits that have appeared since the split between wild and domestic populations. Domestication traits are generally fixed withi |