(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.
Mustang
Definition:
(n.) The half-wild horse of the plains in Mexico, California, etc. It is small, hardy, and easily sustained.
Example Sentences:
(1) Car enthusiasts ship their classic Mustangs, Fords and Chevys across oceans to cruise this iconic road and experience a true slice of Americana.
(2) Back in the 19th century, cowboys used the point as a natural corral, where they could herd mustangs out to the tip and build a fence across the bottleneck of the point.
(3) They reached a road and a waiting car, an old yellow Mustang.
(4) Once someone had put my feet in the chunky stirrups, I was handed the reins of a mustang crossbreed known as Amigo.
(5) 10 July 2011 A North American P-51 Mustang and a Douglas A-1 Skyraider are involved in a midair collision at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
(6) 16 Cal Poly felt incredibly comfortable, with the Shockers' Cleanthony Early, who finished the game with 23 points, at times threatening to outscore the entire Mustangs squad.
(7) The Douglas lands safely and the Mustang pilot parachutes to safety as his plane plummets to the ground.
(8) Unfortunately, only one of our group had remained sober to drive us to our hotel, several hours away, and it was the one whose other car is a Mustang.
(9) Gina Mule, a witness at the Lee Highway location, told CNN she saw a white male in a silver convertible Ford Mustang with a gun.
(10) Vselensky’s friends believe the arrest, on drug charges, was made to compel Mustang Wanted, the celebrity Ukrainian roofer who claimed responsibility for the action on his Facebook page, to turn himself over to the Russian police.
(11) But on Friday a Ukrainian roofer known as Mustang Wanted, whose videos of himself hanging from buildings at vertigo-inducing heights have earned him online notoriety, posted a photograph of himself standing on top of the repainted star and said he had coloured it and topped it with a Ukrainian flag "in an outburst of genuine patriotic feelings".
(12) With a budget of Hollywood proportions – £2.5m just for this set piece – the Grand Tour’s opening scene at midnight on Thursday featured Clarkson and co-presenters James May and Richard Hammond in red, white and blue Ford Mustangs leading a convoy of 150 vehicles to a huge tent in the Californian desert.
(13) The SMU Mustangs, coached by Larry Brown ( yes that Larry Brown ) were expected to make a tournament appearance, but will have to settle for a trip to the NIT .
(14) Top tip: The Steens are famous among wild horse enthusiasts, who travel to the region to catch a glimpse of a rare Kiger mustang, hardy horses directly descended from Spanish stock brought to North America in the 17th century.
(15) It is popular with foreign tourists visiting the Mount Annapurna and Mustang region for trekking, and with Hindu pilgrims visiting the Muktinath temple .
(16) It has been found that malondialdehyde penetrates during smoking through filters and exhales with smoke from cigarettes such as: "Pall Mall", "Winston", "Camel", "Lucky Strike", "Kansas", "Mustang", "Ronson", "Chesterfield", "Rally", "Oscar" and "Marlboro".