Definition of "wild" []

• Occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed: wild geese; edible wild plants. (adjective)
• Not inhabited or farmed: remote, wild country. (adjective)
• Uncivilized or barbarous; savage. (adjective)
• Lacking supervision or restraint: wild children living in the street. (adjective)
• Disorderly; unruly: a wild scene in the school cafeteria. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The African species exists only in a wild state; and it would appear that individuals of this kind have been measured having the dimensions of the largest of the _wild_ Asiatic elephants."
• "This animal (whose name is sometimes written "huanaca," though the pronunciation is the same with "guanaco" or "guanaca") is larger than the llama, and for a long time was considered merely as the wild llama, or the llama _run wild_, in which you will perceive an essential distinction."
• "For all that, it was a wild boar, or rather a boar _ran wild_."