(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.
Untamed
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
(2) Off message David Davis, untamed Tory SAS man, now living rough in the political wilderness.
(3) Plasma glucose concentrations were elevated during the first week in the untamed goats.
(4) Chapter 1: imagine your hopes and dreams are a galloping stallion, wild and untamed.
(5) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem that succeeds through a series of vivid contrasts: standard English contrasting with colloquial speech; the devotion and virtue of the young knight contrasting with the growling threats of his green foe; exchanges of courtly love contrasting with none-too-subtle sexual innuendo; exquisite robes and priceless crowns contrasting with spurting blood and the steaming organs of butchered animals; polite, indoor society contrasting with the untamed, unpredictable outdoors.
(6) Charles Kennedy: an open, untamed personality at the heart of the Lib Dems Read more “OK, well, so.
(7) Further, for News Corp to buy into such an untamed media property is to risk ruining it by making it corporate and by definition 'uncool'.
(8) This had felt untameable well before the end and he will depart South Africa, undeservedly, on a sour note.
(9) The route becomes untamed towards Pine Lodge, perfect for a live music jam at Ziggy’s , and the gravelly trip out to the Cape Recife point and lighthouse is surely worth the journey.
(10) The country’s internet regulator has repeatedly warned that an untamed cyberspace would pose a risk to domestic security and the government should decide who to allow into “its house”.
(11) Ice zombies … and worse Meanwhile, something unpalatable is happening beyond the wall that separates Westeros from the untamed polar regions beyond.
(12) Photograph: Lisa Ricciotti It is the work of Algerian-born French architect Rudy Ricciotti , a tempestuous and provocative iconoclast described by designer Philippe Starck as "a clairvoyant, untamable wild animal".
(13) I meet as many people coming to me frustrated by the unresponsive state as the untamed market.
(14) Across the channel, Jean Luc Mélenchon, who heads a grassroots movement La France Insoumise or Untamed France, could be on the verge of making the second round in the French presidential election .
(15) In Achin, Isis members have access to mines, timber, opium, an untamed border with Pakistan – and the same nearly impenetrable mountains that US warplanes have pounded since the beginning of the war.
(16) The road into Mexico's Tierra Caliente winds down through pine forests into a fertile paradise where tropical fruit seem to burst from the ground, before climbing again into the mountains of the untamed sierra.
(17) Effects of MS4101 on emotional behaviour in untamed cats were studied and compared with those of diazepam.
(18) And it's not only nature that's untamed in the movie.
(19) Nonetheless, building on the untamed green space and moving out the poor will happen in tandem .
(20) On the drive in we'd stopped for the night in Cody to watch an amateur rodeo with bronco-busting cowboys battling against untamed horses and clinging to the backs of very annoyed bulls.