Wilding

n. 1. A wild crab-apple. Spencer. 2. A young tree that is wild, or growing without cultivation. The fruit of the tree . . . is small, of little juice, and bad quality. . . . I presume it to be a wilding. Loudon.

a. Not tame, domesticated, or cultivated; wild. [Rare.] “Wilding flowers.” Tennyson. The ground-squirrel gayly chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums merrily by. Bryant.