wildling
\ WAHYLD-ling \, noun;
1.a wild plant, flower, or animal.
Quotes:
It is well to remember that when a fruit tree has its vital power weakened and the necessities of culture results in this, the tree is much more liable to disease, than when it is as healthy as a wildling in a place where the art of the fruit grower has never been called into play.
-- Edited by Thomas Meehan, "The Gardener's Monthly and Horticulturist," 1879
This little wildling that looked like a hill pony made the fastest horse Albrin had bred seem a plodding workhorse in comparison.
-- Patricia Briggs, "The Hob's Bargain," 2001
Origin:
Wildling joins the word wild , "living in a state of nature," with -ling , an Old English suffix meaning "a person or thing concerned with." It entered English in the mid-1800s.
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