feral

feral
feral1
/fear"euhl, fer"-/, adj.
1. existing in a natural state, as animals or plants; not domesticated or cultivated; wild.
2. having reverted to the wild state, as from domestication: a pack of feral dogs roaming the woods.
3. of or characteristic of wild animals; ferocious; brutal.
[1595-1605; < ML, LL feralis bestial, wild, equiv. to L fer(a) wild beast + -alis -AL1]
feral2
/fear"euhl, fer"-/, adj.
1. causing death; fatal.
2. funereal; gloomy.
[1615-25; < L feralis of the dead, funerary, fatal]

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