undomesticated

adjective un·do·mes·ti·cat·ed \ ən-də-ˈme-sti-ˌkā-təd \

Definition of undomesticated

: not domesticated

an undomesticated plant

undomesticated relatives of the house cat

Recent Examples of undomesticated from the Web

Otherwise fish remain our last wild food resource, our sole surviving forager’s link to an undomesticated world.

— richard adams carey, WSJ, "What the Land Owes to the Sea," 22 Sep. 2017
But even if our aspirations for a night of undomesticated, immoderate revelry were unfulfilled, the two-family trip was a revelation in less dramatic but equally significant ways.

— freda moon, New York Times, "We Wanted a Carefree Family Trip. So We Invited a Second Family.," 6 Sep. 2017
The last surviving subspecies of undomesticated horse, extinct in the wild for nearly 50 years, is making a slow recovery in Mongolia.

— gary strauss, National Geographic, "A Wild Horse on the Comeback Trail," 17 Nov. 2016

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