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fe|ral

fe|ral¹ «FIHR uhl», adjective.

1. having reverted from domestication back to the original wild or untamed state: »The dovecot pigeon…has become feral in several places (Charles Darwin).

2. wild; untamed; uncultivated: »A corresponding variability is as normal to some purely feral animals as to the semidomesticated species (Coues and Allen).

3. characteristic of wild beasts; brutal; savage: »feral hostility.

╂[< Latin fera beast (< ferus wild) + English -al¹]

fe|ral² «FIHR uhl», adjective.

1. of or having to do with the dead; funeral; gloomy.

2. deadly; fatal: »feral diseases (Thomas Burton).

╂[< Latin fērālis funereal]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.