Domestication is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DOMESTICATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of domesticating
• the process of taming an animal and keeping it as a pet or on a farm
• the cultivation of a plant for food
• the process of making someone fond of and good at home life and the tasks that it involves
• The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.
• adaptation to intimate association with human beings
• the attribute of having been domesticated
• accommodation to domestic life
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to bring into domestic us; adopt

Words related to DOMESTICATION

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Words that contain DOMESTICATION

domestications19 semidomestication24 semidomestications25

How to use DOMESTICATION in a sentence

• The elephant is found from sea to sea, but he has not proved to be so amenable to domestication as his Asian brother.
• Wild species also vary, perhaps about as widely as those of domestication, though in different ways.
• Like the Magpie, the Jay has considerable talent for mimicry, and in a state of domestication may be taught to articulate words like a Parrot.
• The few animals that we now possess in a state of domestication were first reclaimed from wildness in prehistoric times.
• Gallinas, or guinea-fowl, have so little care for comfort, or indeed for man, that they fall but a short way within the frontier of domestication.
• It is therefore essential to domestication that they should possess some quality by which large numbers of them may be controlled by a few herdsmen.
• I see no reason to suppose that the first domestication of any animal, except the elephant, implies a high civilisation among the people who established it.
• It coincides with the domestication of the dog, an epoch in hunting-life.
• This revolution is to be wrought by the gradual domestication of the idea of Culture.
• There is apparently but one difference between him and the wild wolf, and this comes, possibly, through domestication.
• The domestication of animal life marked another great step in the long ascent.
• If the plant would bear domestication it would be highly ornamental.
• In the duration of its growth, no fodder plant grown under domestication will equal it.
• But the facts of domestication are most emphatic in refusing to acknowledge any change of species of the most carefully bred animals.
• Of course, under domestication, they use knives, forks, spoons, and dishes not so much from intelligence as from imitation.
• I refer to the variability of Species as shown in domestication.
• From these considerations, I shall devote the first chapter of this Abstract to Variation under Domestication.
• It has often been assumed that man has chosen for domestication animals and plants having an extraordinary inherent tendency to vary, and likewise to withstand diverse climates.
• Under domestication, it may be truly said that the whole organisation becomes in some degree plastic.
• The possibility, or even probability, of inherited variations of instinct in a state of nature will be strengthened by briefly considering a few cases under domestication.
• Familiarity alone prevents our seeing how universally and largely the minds of our domestic animals have been modified by domestication.
• This, in fact, is the great bar to the domestication of animals.
• If we turn to varieties, produced, or supposed to have been produced, under domestication, we are still involved in doubt.
• Our greatest delight is to see all the varieties of domestication parade before us.
• In the beginning pastoral society and tribal government develop among savages primarily through the domestication of animals.
• Looking back on this process, we call it the domestication of plants, and we are likely to regard it as a more conscious process than it really was.
• The domestication of animals appears similarly to be the following-up by man of his connections with animal life, when this life began to be less abundant.
• It is susceptible of domestication, and is remarkable for its cleanly habits.
• THE VARIATIONS OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS UNDER DOMESTICATION.
• Diseases in animals greatly increase under the artificial conditions of domestication.

Similar words containing DOMESTICA without suffix tion

domestical15 domesticate16 domesticable19 domestically20 domesticated18 domesticates17 domesticator17 domesticating19 domesticative21 domesticators18 undomesticate18 domestications19 undomesticated20 undomesticates19 undomesticating21 semidomesticati22 semidomesticate22 semidomesticated24 semidomestication24 semidomestications25

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