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English
Etymology
From wild + -ling (“descendant”); cognate with Dutch (not synonymous) wildeling.
Noun
wildling (plural wildlings)
- A wild, i.e. not cultivated, plant
- A wild animal
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- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967