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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Wilding

· Wild·ing · IPA /wˈaɪldɪŋ/
01 n. A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant.
  1. 1.
    A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant.(Bot.)
    “Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found.” — Dryden.
    “The fruit of the tree . . . is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding.” — Landor.
02 a. Not tame, domesticated, or cultivated; wild.
  1. 1.
    Not tame, domesticated, or cultivated; wild.[Poetic]
    “The ground squirrel gayly chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums merrily by.” — Bryant.