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feral

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"Wild"

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈfɛɹəl/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aeflrStarts with FEnds with L1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Filled answer is this word (FERAL).

Definitions

  1. Wild rather than domesticated or socially controlled.

Word origin

From Latin fera (“wild beast”, noun) + -al or Latin ferus (“wild; savage; cruel”, adjective) + -al. Alternatively, borrowed from Middle French féral or Late Latin ferālis.

Used in a sentence

  • Among the ensemble’s strange, outmoded, “original” instruments — the feral horns, sour violins, wooden flutes, cellos without endpins — she seemed right at home, despite her Broadway provenance.
  • In this region, the wild boars can be dangerous, but (perhaps counterintuitively) the feral hogs can be even worse.
  • This subject has been ably treated by several authors, and I shall, in my future work, discuss some of the checks at considerable length, more especially in regard to the feral animals of South America.

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