10. feral

2009 June 2
by ghengiskhanh

“Feral”

A feral organism is one that has escaped from domestication and returned, partly or wholly, to its wild state.

In addition to the meaning of the word feral described here, from Latin fera, “a wild beast”, the word has a second unrelated meaning, from Latin feralis, “belonging to the dead”, “funeral”.

Wikipedia.org 2009

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