Acclimate \Ac*cli"mate\ (#; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Acclimated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Acclimating}.] [F. acclimater; [`a] (l. ad) + climat climate. See {Climate}.] To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. --J. H. Newman.
A hummingbird expert in San Francisco has offered to acclimate it to the weather there before releasing it, she said.
From there, she plans to travel to the Argentine city of Ushuaia, where she will slowly acclimate herself to the channel's frigid waters.