| wilding | <botany> A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant. "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) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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