Definition of "domesticates" []

• Plural form of domesticate. (noun)

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• "In short, what makes Cathay the most important translation into English in the past one hundred years is that Pound successfully "domesticates" and simultaneously "foreignises" these poems."
• "Faded advertisements—for Coca-Cola and 7-Up, for Gulf and Esso gas—are a recurring theme, treated not as mass-produced objects intruding on the landscape but as objects that the land domesticates: a Wonder Bread sign slowly rusting in a field, a bleached Coca-Cola ad overgrown with vines."
• "And now, as Homo sapiens domesticates the new biotechnology, we are reviving the ancient pre-Darwinian practice of horizontal gene transfer, moving genes easily from microbes to plants and animals, blurring the boundaries between species."