wildlingn.
/ˈwʌɪldlɪŋ/ 1. A wild plant or flower: = wilding n.1 2.
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1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. I. 345 The turmeric, hena,..considered too valuable..to remain a wildling.
1861 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (rev. ed.) iii. 153 His dried garden of wildlings.
1907 Daily Chron. 10 July 3/3 Notes as to the growing of woodland and hedgerow ‘wildlings’ in a garden.
2. A wild creature or animal: = wilding n.1 3.
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the world > animals > by nature > [noun] > wild animal
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1841 S. Bamford Passages Life Radical I. xi. 72 All said he was killed... The doctor..approached along an avenue made through those wildlings.
1884 St. James's Gaz. 4 Apr. 6/1 I am one of her [sc. nature's] ‘wildlings’. [Cf. wilding n.1 2.]
1907 J. H. Crawford From Fox's Earth i. 13 The wildling of the breezy heights is quite as interesting as the wildling of the cool water.
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