wilding

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wild apple or apple tree.
    — These were ‘wildings’, wild crab apples (Malus sylvestris), a miniature of today's, native to the British Isles.
  2. A form of youth violence characterized by a group of young people committing violent acts randomly and without specific targets. US,countable,uncountable
  3. Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, etc.
    — Oft from the forrest wildings he did bring, / Whose sides empurpled were with smiling red […]
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of wild form-of,gerund,participle,present
    — Those boys are bad enough, and soon they'll start their wilding.
形容词 adj.
  1. Not cultivated or tame; wild. not-comparable,poetic
    — The wilding bee hums merrily by.

词形变化

wildings plural wildings plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English wilding, wylding, wyldyng (“grass, straw, or the stems of wild plants”), equivalent to wild + -ing.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English wild
English -ing
English wilding
From wild + -ing.
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