wilding Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree)
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noun an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women
WordNet
Wild"ing noun
Definitions
(Bot.) A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant. Spenser.Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found. Dryden.
The fruit of the tree . . . is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding. Landor.
Wild"ing adjective
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Not tame, domesticated, or cultivated; wild. Poetic "Wilding flowers." Tennyson.The ground squirrel gayly chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums merrily by. Bryant.
