wildering

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noun

A plant growing in a state of nature, especially one that has run wild or escaped from cultivation.

Scrabble 14

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wildering1

nounwildering (plural wilderings)

plural wilderings

  1. biologyA plant growing in a state of nature, especially one that has run wild or escaped from cultivation.

wildering2

adjectivewildering (comparative more wildering, superlative most wildering)

comparative more wildering · superlative most wildering

  1. poeticBewildering.

    Alas! how weak is reason's wildering chain! How low we fall, from heights we seek to gain! The lamp of Science, through the mists afar, Fades like the sun upon the Georgian star; […]

    1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, The Georgian Planet, page 88

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Chicago

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