undomesticated
Americanadjective
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It’s illegal to feed undomesticated mammalian predators, including coyotes, but establishing that a crime occurred required evidence that animal services did not initially find, the agency said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
"We can use these modern tools to domesticate undomesticated crops."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 11, 2026
The species was thought to be extinct in the wild until the early 20th century when a supposedly undomesticated population was found in western China.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 4, 2023
Like dogs breeding with wolves, chickens sometimes mate with their undomesticated cousins.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 8, 2023
The disquietude he felt on Katahdin’s granite heights inspired some of his most powerful writing and profoundly colored the way he thought thereafter about the earth in its coarse, undomesticated state.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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