undomesticated

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

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Definition of undomesticated

: not domesticated an undomesticated plant undomesticated relatives of the house cat

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Recent Examples on 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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“Undomesticated.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/undomesticated. Accessed 19 January 2020.

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