[f. ACCLIMATIZE + -ATION.] The process of acclimatizing, or of being acclimatized, or habituated to a new climate. Also attrib., as ‘the Acclimatization Society.’
1830. Lyell, Princ. of Geol. (1875), II. III. xxxvii. 320. This acclimatization has been the result of Natural Selection during thousands of generations.
1878. J. Buller, New Zealand, I. Introd. 17. In the acclimatization gardens our British song-birds … are now finding a home.
1880. Günther, Fishes, 185. The first successful attempts of acclimatisation were made with domestic species.
2. An example of acclimatization; a thing which has been acclimatized.
1864. Owen, Power of God, 43. The bird which we call turkey … was one of our best acclimatisations after the discovery of the New World.
