Category:Wilding

Wild"ing, n. (bot.)

Defn: 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.

Wilding Wild"ing, a.

Defn: 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.