(a.) Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts, birds, and plants.
(a.) Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tests were conducted on naturally infected fish from feral populations and commercial sources, as well as on fish which were experimentally infected with a virulent culture of Aeromonas hydrophila.
(2) With the help of yellow contact lenses, a false beard, nose and teeth, he has taken on the demeanour of a feral animal.
(3) Mann describes herself as a "feral child", running naked with dogs or riding her horse with only a string through its mouth.
(4) The yeast Cyniclomyces guttulatus (Saccharomycopsis guttulata) was shown in this study to line the stomach of domestic and feral rabbits, guinea pigs, and chinchillas.
(5) The Daily Telegraph delivered yesterday, describing the March in May protests as a revolt of the ferals .
(6) From one side we hear that it's about feral youth, and from the others its all about inequality.
(7) In New Zealand's four main feral red deer populations (n = 188) the DIA1F allele frequency ranged from 0.491 to 0.985.
(8) Evidence of viral transmission by feral animals was not obtained.
(9) A behavioural study of feral horses was conducted on the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range in the western United States.
(10) The animals were of various breeds including Angora, New Zealand feral, Angora x feral, Saanen and Toggenburg.
(11) Six hundred sixty-one feral swine (Sus scrofa) from Ossabaw Island, Georgia (USA) were captured, bled, and their sera tested for pseudorabies virus (PRV) antibody during a 6 yr period.
(12) This is the first study in which it has been possible to demonstrate a close morphological congruity between a set of idiopathic hepatic lesions in any feral population and an established series of hepatic lesions inducible in rodents by certain hepatocarcinogens under laboratory conditions.
(13) For periods of 3, 6, and 12 months, 104 feral rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) were on test.
(14) The feral heart stopped at a mean of 10-4 hours (range 0-5 to 25 hours) after the injection of PGF2alpha.
(15) The former Labour prime minister, who towards the end of his time in office in June 2007 branded the media as being like a "feral beast tearing people and reputations to bits" in a speech, said on Monday morning he now felt more comfortable talking about the sometimes unassailable power that newspapers hold without responsibility.
(16) The social behavior of feral horses was studied in the western United States.
(17) In so far as can be gleaned , the 120,000 families whose feral ways Mr Pickles and the prime minister like pointing to were totted up using outdated surveys concerned not with the school skiving, crime and loutishness that dominated yesterday's spin.
(18) Captive feral mares were similar to domestic breeds in the percentage of mares ovulating all year and in the P levels achieved during the estrous cycle and pregnancy.
(19) Having been quite feral, he was proud of his domestication."
(20) Some breeds came from other countries, others were developed from feral animals and yet others were created in this state by crossing and selective breeding.