0 present participle of domesticate
1 to bring animals or plants under human control in order to provide food, power, or company:
Rather, perennial grain breeders are pursuing two parallel strategies: domesticating promising wild perennials and hybridizing annual crops with perennial relatives.
Domesticating the street: the contested spaces of the high street and the mall.
Therefore, it is necessary to develop tools aimed at conserving the genetic resources of these species and/or domesticating the most useful species.
The modern law of religious freedom is celebrated for its unruliness; hence the need for domesticating theory may seem urgent.
It may be too ambitious to attempt domesticating some varieties, but certainly flat fish, such as turbot, can be controlled.
Fish farming is the first move towards domesticating fish.
They also began domesticating plants such as maize and squash, probably at dooryard gardens.
Undomesticated herds were chosen to become more controllable for the proto-pastoralist nomadic hunter and gatherer groups by taming and domesticating them.