wilding [
'waildiŋ]
n. 野生植物, 野生苹果树, 野生苹果
wilding[ noun ]- a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree)
<noun.plant>
- an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women
<noun.act>
Wilding \Wild"ing\, n. (Bot.)
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.
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.
- The case gave wide exposure to the term "wilding" for gang attacks carried out for fun against passersby.