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Recent Examples of undomesticated Game Meat Wild game meat is any meat that is undomesticated instead of farm-raised.15 Venison (deer or elk), bison, rabbit, and wild boar are commonly consumed game meats. Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 21 Apr. 2025 Listen to this article Police are investigating after more than 70 animals — many of them undomesticated — were found dead at a home in Old Saybrook. Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2025 According to the team, the study could contribute to shifting welfare standards for all species of cats, whether they are domesticated or undomesticated, tame or wild. Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024 Fowler was the one left to wrestle undomesticated animals while Perkins looked on from a safe distance. Edward M. Eveld, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024 Results showed that Rock Doves and feral pigeons descended from the same undomesticated pigeon lineage. Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2022 California has outlawed the sale of new items made from the fur of undomesticated animals, including mink, rabbit and coyote. Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022 Gallus gallus, the undomesticated ancestor of modern chickens , have come to dominate American dinner tables, where its meat is consumed at a rate of 80 pounds per person per year. Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2012 These undomesticated strains appear at harvest time, when farmers select their tamer, more pampered kin for replanting. Helen Sullivan, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undomesticated
Adjective
  • Advertisement Dawn of the Dead (1978) There's a credible case to be made that Romero's 1973 movie The Crazies, about a biological weapon that causes residents of a small town to go feral, qualifies as a zombie movie.
    James Grebey, Time, 20 June 2025
  • There are tribes of fast, feral predators that resemble the second coming of neanderthals.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • Each spring, the officials explained, the women travelled out to these islands and built little wooden huts for wild eider ducks, protecting them from predators.
    James Rebanks June 26, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
  • In a wild twist, Mason, who ran the point for KU’s alumni team last July, has switched squads and will play for Boeheim’s Army, a collection of former Syracuse players.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2025

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“Undomesticated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undomesticated. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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