domesticated
adjEtymology From domesticate + -ed.
1
Selectively bred to live with or around humans. (of an animal or a plant, especially a pet)
- But I can take the calves and learn them to work and give milk, and learn them to become domesticated and useful.1856, Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, Volume 4:
- Antonyms
- undomesticated
- Derived terms
- domesticatedness, nondomesticated, predomesticated, semidomesticated, semi-domesticated
- Related terms
- tame