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Wilding
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: noun (n.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
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.