Wild
Meanings and phrases
wild
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated; untamed
- in a state of extreme emotion
- deviating widely from an intended course
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud; violent
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; angry; furious; raging; tempestuous
- without civilizing influences; -Margaret Meade; barbarian; barbaric; savage; uncivilized; uncivilised
- without a basis in reason or fact; baseless; groundless; idle; unfounded; unwarranted
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with; crazy; dotty; gaga
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish; fantastic
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; godforsaken; waste
- involving risk or danger; hazardous; risky
- talking or behaving irrationally; raving mad
wild
- in an uncontrolled and rampant manner; rampantly
- in a wild or undomesticated manner
wild
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization; natural state; state of nature
- a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; wilderness
Buffalo Bill 's Wild West Show
- a spectacular show organized in 1883 by William F. Cody that featured horseback riding and marksmanship on a large scale; toured the United States and Europe; Wild West Show
Wild Bill Hickock
- frontier marshal whose adventures have become legendary (1837-1876); Hickock; James Butler Hickock
Wild West
- the western United States during its frontier period
Wild West Show
- a spectacular show organized in 1883 by William F. Cody that featured horseback riding and marksmanship on a large scale; toured the United States and Europe; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
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- widely distributed North American wild onion with white to rose flowers; nodding onion; lady's leek; Allium cernuum
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- deciduous tree of southwestern United States having pulpy fruit containing saponin; Sapindus drumondii; Sapindus marginatus
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- European herb with compound leaves and white flowers; adventive on Cape Breton Island; Angelica sylvestris
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- any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acidic fruit; crab apple; crabapple
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- aromatic herb having heads of small pink or whitish flowers; widely distributed in United States, Europe and Asia; cushion calamint; Clinopodium vulgare; Satureja vulgaris
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- a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans; groundnut; groundnut vine; Indian potato; potato bean; Apios americana; Apios tuberosa
- nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans; groundnut; potato bean
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- Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States; boar; Sus scrofa
- The town's shape resmbles a wild boar's Fang.
- It is shaped like a wild boar with two tusks.
- This is where the last wild boar in Scotland was killed.
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- low-growing shrub with spreading branches and flowers in loose heads; desert regions of western United States (California to Utah); California buckwheat; Erigonum fasciculatum
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- wild original of cultivated cabbages; common in western coastal Europe; Brassica oleracea
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- plant of wetlands and bogs of temperate regions having small greenish flowers partly enclosed in a white spathe and red berries; water arum; Calla palustris
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- an unpredictable factor
- a playing card whose value can be determined by the person who holds it
- The Tigers instead settled for the AL wild card.
- In the second round she lost to wild card, former world No.
- The Tennis Sub-Committee met to decide wild card entries on 17 June.
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- a widely naturalized Eurasian herb with finely cut foliage and white compound umbels of small white or yellowish flowers and thin yellowish roots; Queen Anne's lace; Daucus carota
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- South American cavy; possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig; aperea; Cavia porcellus
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- submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia; tape grass; eelgrass; Vallisneria spiralis
- herb of Europe and temperate Asia; Apium graveolens
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- annual Eurasian herb similar in fragrance and medicinal uses to chamomile though taste is more bitter and effect is considered inferior; sweet false chamomile; German chamomile; Matricaria recutita; Matricaria chamomilla
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- coarse erect biennial Old World herb introduced as a weed in eastern North America; cow parsley; Anthriscus sylvestris
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- West Indian tree; source of bay rum; bayberry; bay-rum tree; Jamaica bayberry; Pimenta acris
- large evergreen shrub or small tree having white aromatic bark and leathery leaves and small purple to red flowers in terminal cymes; white cinnamon tree; Canella winterana; Canella-alba
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- Eurasian sage with blue flowers and foliage like verbena; naturalized in United States; wild sage; vervain sage; Salvia verbenaca
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- herb of tropical America having vanilla-scented flowers; climbs up trees; climbing hempweed; climbing boneset; climbing hemp-vine; Mikania scandens
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- coarse weedy American perennial herb with large usually perfoliate leaves and purple or dull red flowers; feverroot; horse gentian; tinker's root; Triostium perfoliatum
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- wild crab apple native to Europe; a chief ancestor of cultivated apples; Malus sylvestris
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- evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn; common bearberry; red bearberry; mealberry; hog cranberry; sand berry; sandberry; mountain box; bear's grape; creashak; Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
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- short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers; North America and Siberia; American pasqueflower; Eastern pasque flower; lion's beard; prairie anemone; blue tulip; American pulsatilla; Pulsatilla patens; Anemone ludoviciana
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- any of various undomesticated mammals of the family Canidae that are thought to resemble domestic dogs as distinguished from jackals or wolves
- He set out in search and met a "cu seang", a wild dog.
- Its ears are somewhat rounded, but less so than the African wild dog.
- Carnivores include the African wild dog, leopard, lion, and mongoose.
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- found wild in Palestine; held to be prototype of cultivated wheat; wild wheat; Triticum dicoccum dicoccoides
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- a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas; golden fig; Florida strangler fig; strangler fig; Ficus aurea
- a West Indies clusia having fig-shaped fruit; Clusia flava
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- pungent Old World wild onion; crow garlic; false garlic; field garlic; stag's garlic; Allium vineale
- pungent Old World weedy plant; wood garlic; Ramsons; Allium ursinum
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- common wild geranium of eastern North America with deeply parted leaves and rose-purple flowers; spotted cranesbill; Geranium maculatum
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- perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of western North America that is also cultivated; checkerbloom; Sidalcea malviflora
- a rare mallow found only in Illinois resembling the common hollyhock and having pale rose-mauve flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sphaeralcea; Iliamna remota; Sphaeralcea remota
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- bryony having fleshy roots pale green flowers and very small red berries; Europe; North Africa; western Asia; red bryony; Bryonia dioica
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- undomesticated or feral domestic horse
- They presented an image of a running wild horse on one of the two faces.
- The playwright Henry M. Milner wrote "Mazeppa; or, The wild horse of Tartary.
- In contrast to his wild horse, he looks very calm amongst the chaos of the scene.
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- sometimes placed in genus Scilla; wood hyacinth; bluebell; harebell; Hyacinthoides nonscripta; Scilla nonscripta
- eastern camas; eastern and central North America; indigo squill; Camassia scilloides
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- deciduous shrub with creamy white flower clusters; eastern United States; Hydrangea arborescens
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- North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers; ramp; Allium tricoccum
- coarse Old World perennial having a large bulb and tall stalk of greenish purple-tinged flowers; widely naturalized; Levant garlic; kurrat; Allium ampeloprasum
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- bedstraw with sweetish roots; Galium lanceolatum
- North American plant similar to true licorice and having a root with similar properties; wild liquorice; American licorice; American liquorice; Glycyrrhiza lepidota
- European perennial; wild liquorice; Astragalus glycyphyllos
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- evergreen with rounded leaves and very fragrant creamy-white flowers; widely distributed in northern parts of Old and New Worlds; Pyrola rotundifolia
- North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters; shinleaf; Pyrola elliptica
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- North American plant similar to true licorice and having a root with similar properties; wild licorice; American licorice; American liquorice; Glycyrrhiza lepidota
- European perennial; wild licorice; Astragalus glycyphyllos
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- stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers; sundial lupine; Indian beet; old-maid's bonnet; Lupinus perennis
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- Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers; naturalized in North America; white madder; white bedstraw; infant's-breath; false baby's breath; Galium mollugo
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- North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit; mayapple; May apple; Podophyllum peltatum
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- African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos; valued for its oil-rich seed and hardy green wood that resists termites; dika; wild mango tree; Irvingia gabonensis
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- African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos; valued for its oil-rich seed and hardy green wood that resists termites; wild mango; dika; Irvingia gabonensis
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- aromatic Eurasian perennial; oregano; marjoram; pot marjoram; winter sweet; Origanum vulgare
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- common lily of the eastern United States having nodding yellow or reddish flowers spotted with brown; Canada lily; wild yellow lily; meadow lily; Lilium canadense
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- small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit; wild medlar tree; medlar; Vangueria infausta
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- small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit; wild medlar; medlar; Vangueria infausta
wild morning-glory
- weakly climbing European perennial with white or pink flowers; naturalized in North America and an invasive weed; field bindweed; Convolvulus arvensis
- common Eurasian and American wild climber with pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Convolvulus; hedge bindweed; Calystegia sepium; Convolvulus sepium
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- weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields; field mustard; charlock; chadlock; Brassica kaber; Sinapis arvensis
wild oats
- any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers; bellwort; merry bells
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- erect shrub or climber of India and China with red olivelike fruit; Elaeagnus latifolia
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- small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States; cherry laurel; laurel cherry; mock orange; Prunus caroliniana
- small fast-growing spiny deciduous Chinese orange tree bearing sweetly scented flowers and decorative but inedible fruit: used as a stock in grafting and for hedges; trifoliate orange; trifoliata; Poncirus trifoliata
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- a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived; Johnny-jump-up; heartsease; love-in-idleness; pink of my John; Viola tricolor
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- any of various uncultivated umbelliferous plants with foliage resembling that of carrots or parsley
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- biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root; the ancestor of cultivated parsnip; madnep
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- large much-branched shrub grown primarily for its evergreen foliage; Kiggelaria africana
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- vine widely distributed in eastern North America producing racemes of purple to maroon flowers and abundant (usually subterranean) edible one-seeded pods resembling peanuts; hog peanut; Amphicarpaea bracteata; Amphicarpa bracteata
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- a bog orchid with usually a solitary fragrant magenta pink blossom with a wide gaping corolla; Canada; bog rose; dragon's mouth; Arethusa bulbosa
- perennial of eastern and central North America having short-stalked pink or white flowers in hairy clusters; Silene caroliniana
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- an errant pitch that the catcher cannot be expected to catch and that allows a base runner to advance a base
- After a wild pitch, Joe DiMaggio's RBI double made it 2–0 Yankees.
- Sherdel threw a wild pitch to Ruth, and Koenig advanced to second base.
- With Mookie Wilson batting, a wild pitch by Bob Stanley tied the game at 5.
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- fruit of the wild plum of southern United States; hog plum
- an uncultivated plum tree or shrub; wild plum tree
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- erect or spreading perennial of southwestern United States and Mexico bearing small pale brown to cream-colored tubers resembling potatoes; Solanum jamesii
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- tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato; wild sweet potato vine; man-of-the-earth; manroot; scammonyroot; Ipomoea panurata; Ipomoea fastigiata
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- perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit; prairie gourd; prairie gourd vine; Missouri gourd; buffalo gourd; calabazilla; Cucurbita foetidissima
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- stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns; American feverfew; prairie dock; Parthenium integrifolium
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- Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits; jointed charlock; wild rape; runch; Raphanus raphanistrum
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- Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits; jointed charlock; wild radish; runch; Raphanus raphanistrum
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- the common European raspberry; fruit red or orange; European raspberry; framboise; Rubus idaeus
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- Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat; animated oat; Avene sterilis
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- perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food; Zizania aquatica
- grains of aquatic grass of North America; Indian rice
- Wild foods including wild rice and maple sugar were harvested.
- Manomin is a variant spelling of "manoomin", the Ojibwe word for wild rice, a staple of their diet.
- Other crops inherited from the Native Americans include wild rice, which grows on the banks of lakes and is a local favorite for fancy meals and today often used in stuffing for Thanksgiving.
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- bog shrub of northern and central Europe and eastern Siberia to Korea and Japan; marsh tea; Ledum palustre
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- Eurasian sage with blue flowers and foliage like verbena; naturalized in United States; wild clary; vervain sage; Salvia verbenaca
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- common perennial herb having aromatic roots used as a substitute for sarsaparilla; central and eastern North America; false sarsaparilla; wild sarsparilla; Aralia nudicaulis
wild sarsparilla
- common perennial herb having aromatic roots used as a substitute for sarsaparilla; central and eastern North America; wild sarsaparilla; false sarsaparilla; Aralia nudicaulis
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- North American perennial herb; leaves are used medicinally; sometimes placed in genus Cassia; Senna marilandica; Cassia marilandica
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- tropical American plant having leaflets somewhat sensitive to the touch; sometimes placed in genus Cassia; partridge pea; sensitive pea; Chamaecrista fasciculata; Cassia fasciculata
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- common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North America; toadflax; butter-and-eggs; devil's flax; Linaria vulgaris
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- European plant naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb; good-king-henry; allgood; fat hen; Chenopodium bonus-henricus
- leaves collected from the wild; lamb's-quarter; pigweed
- common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb; lamb's-quarters; pigweed; Chenopodium album
- leafy greens collected from the wild and used as a substitute for spinach
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- common perennial United States spurge having showy white petallike bracts; flowering spurge; tramp's spurge; Euphorbia corollata
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- perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone; catgut; goat's rue; Tephrosia virginiana
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- tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato; wild potato vine; man-of-the-earth; manroot; scammonyroot; Ipomoea panurata; Ipomoea fastigiata
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- common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum; manila tamarind; camachile; huamachil; Pithecellobium dulce
- a tree of the West Indies and Florida and Mexico; resembles tamarind and has long flat pods; Lysiloma latisiliqua; Lysiloma bahamensis
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- European teasel with white to pink flowers; naturalized in United States; Dipsacus sylvestris
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- aromatic dwarf shrub common on banks and hillsides in Europe; naturalized in United States; creeping thyme; Thymus serpyllum
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- perennial of southeastern United States with leaves having the fragrance of vanilla; Trilisa odoratissima
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- tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed; love-in-a-mist; running pop; Passiflora foetida
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- found wild in Palestine; held to be prototype of cultivated wheat; wild emmer; Triticum dicoccum dicoccoides
wild wilkworm
- larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon; silkworm; giant silkworm
wild winterpea
- a weak-stemmed winter annual native to Mediterranean region for long established in southern United States; cultivated as a cover and pasture crop; singletary pea; Caley pea; rough pea; Lathyrus hirsutus
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- having a rhizome formerly dried and used to treat rheumatism or liver disorders; Dioscorea paniculata
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- common lily of the eastern United States having nodding yellow or reddish flowers spotted with brown; Canada lily; meadow lily; wild meadow lily; Lilium canadense
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- Ranging from lions to wild animals of all kinds.
- Wildlife includes brown bears and other wild animals.
- There are also red deer and other wild animals.
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- The four wild cards were determined by FIBA through criteria.
- All were selected through wild cards.
- 20 players qualified by rating and 2 are wild cards invited by organizers.
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- Solanum chacoense Solanum chacoense is a species of wild potato.
- Like large parts of Germany, Franconia only has a few large species of wild animal.
- Avena barbata Avena barbata is a species of wild oat known by the common name slender wild oat.
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- Ohira is a dish with simmered vegetables as well as wild plants and chicken.
- The earliest people of the Great Plains mixed hunting and gathering wild plants.
- Kings Gap Environmental Education Center has a wide variety of wild plants and animals.
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- Dun is believed to be the ancestral or wild type color of horses.
- In our example "z" (non-silver) would be wild type and "Z" would be a mutation.
- In addition to the wild type, white, red, pink and multi-headed varieties grew here.
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- Transgenic trees have been suggested as a way to confer resistance to pathogens in wild populations.
- As most seahorses enter trade as bycatch, imposing export quotas would achieve next to nothing for wild populations.
- It also removes fish from the open ocean that have not had a chance to spawn yet, which affects the wild populations.
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- Game birds include bobwhite quail, duck, wild turkey, and goose.
- Commonly hunted game included deer, bear, bison, and wild turkey.
- Commonly hunted game included deer, bear, buffalo, and wild turkey.
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- Ostriches are wild birds that occur naturally in Africa.
- Canarypox virus remains a constant threat to wild birds.
- In Namibia, farmers catch the wild birds under license or buy eggs or young birds.
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- Like large parts of Germany, Franconia only has a few large species of wild animal.
- Local noticeable wild animal species, especially on the Addetta floodway banks, include:
- Detailed life cycle studies have not been carried out with wild animal definitive hosts.
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- It is also inhabited by many wild dogs and cats.
- A posse forms to track down the wild dogs with little success.
- In this manner, they closely resemble African wild dogs in social structure.
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- Their hunting targets were mainly deer and wild boars.
- Eurasian lynx and wild boars sometimes prey on the calves.
- Animals such as the wild boars do not die during pregnancy.
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- Wild Horse Creek was named for the wild horses which roamed along its course.
- The forest also had wild horses, and this may be the origins of the name Horsham which dates back to the 10th century.
- This group formerly consisted of wild horses, which had some degree of protection in the Kaimanawa range, but is now obsolete.
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- The meadow is rich in wild flowers.
- It consists of chalk meadows which provide a habitat for wild flowers, butterflies and birds.
- Characteristic wild flowers include varieties of mariposa, tulip, and tiger and leopard lilies.
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- Additionally, other wild species have bitter fruit containing cucurbitacin.
- of plants covering 10,000 species; both economically important ones and wild species.
- The fishing industry is underdeveloped but includes the capture of wild species as well as fish farming.
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- It is a heaven for nature and wild life admirers.
- It also represents Indian wild life.
- Instead she lived a wild life, coloring her hair and drinking alcohol.
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- The total wild population is 1430 and increasing.
- Pollution and water extraction are threats to the pool where the wild population persists.
- However, the wild population declined from an estimated 436 adult gharials in 1997 to fewer than 250 mature individuals in 2006.
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- Artemis practiced with her bow first by shooting at trees and then at wild beasts.
- When he got there he called out to the demons, and they came back as wild beasts to rip him to shreds.
- This would free its inhabitants, the Matoran and Rahi (wild beasts), from the Makuta's dark influence.
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- Another law encouraged conservation of wild game and mountain trout.
- It works well in stir-fried foods, as well as with wild game or seafood.
- Nobles hunted various wild game and consumed mutton, pork and dog as these animals were domesticated.
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- Wildlife includes brown bears and other wild animals.
- There are also red deer and other wild animals.
- Additionally, other wild species have bitter fruit containing cucurbitacin.
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- But he also led the team in wild pitches with eleven.
- As a pitcher, he faced five batters, allowed four runs, three of them earned, and threw two wild pitches.
- He gave up 291 hits, fifth highest in the league, and led the league in earned runs allowed with 155 and wild pitches with 12.
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- There are also species like quail, dove, and wild turkeys.
- Wildlife in the park includes deer, elk, wild turkeys, and moose.
- Temple (1977) force-fed seventeen tambalacoque fruits to wild turkeys.
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- On 12 December 2009, Russia received a wild card for the 2010 World Cup.
- In 2006, Relax-Gam received a wild card invitation from the organisers to participate in the Vuelta a España.
- He received a wild card for the main draw of the 2018 French Open in the doubles draw, partnering with Ugo Humbert.
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- Harry sometime states that Mister's father "was a wild cat or a lynx or something," but more likely Mister is a Maine Coon.
- Some wild cat species are adapted to forest habitats, some to arid environments, and a few also to wetlands and mountainous terrain.
- Marbled cat The marbled cat ("Pardofelis marmorata") is a small wild cat native from the eastern Himalayas to Southeast Asia, where it inhabits forests up to altitude.