half-domesticated
- a word derived from domesticated.
Example Sentences
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Although the human breeders of the first domesticated animals must have repeatedly crossed them with their wild cousins, this is the first documented example of a half-wild, half-domesticated animal.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 13, 2022
But with the half-domesticated dancing-bear it was different.
From Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear by Copeland, Charles
He haunted waterfalls and fells and rocky heights and lonely tarns, but he was not averse to footpaths and highways, and the rustic, half-domesticated nature of rural England.
From The Last Harvest by Burroughs, John
He did not understand: he would understand nothing: he disappeared from the door like a half-domesticated wild animal.
From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
The genuine wild pheasant in its native region, a little beyond the Caucasus, is in all probability a very different bird from its half-domesticated kinsman in Britain.
From Birds in the Calendar by Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George)
