Usually means: Taming and breeding by humans.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word domestication:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. domestication: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. domestication: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. domestication: Collins English Dictionary
  4. domestication: Vocabulary.com
  5. Domestication, domestication: Wordnik
  6. domestication: Wiktionary
  7. Domestication, domestication: Dictionary.com
  8. Domestication: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Domestication: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. domestication: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. domestication: Rhymezone
  12. Domestication: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. domestication: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. domestication: Free Dictionary
  15. domestication: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. domestication: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. domestication: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. domestication: Encyclopedia

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. domestication: Anthropological Terms
  4. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See domesticate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (domestication)

noun:  The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants.
noun:  The act of domesticating, or making a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
noun:  (translation studies) The act of domesticating a text.

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