feral, ferine, savage
(adjective) wild and menacing; “a pack of feral dogs”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
feral (comparative more feral, superlative most feral)
Wild, untamed, especially of domesticated animals having returned to the wild.
(of a person) Contemptible, unruly, misbehaved.
feral (plural ferals)
A domesticated animal that has returned to the wild; an animal, particularly a domesticated animal, living independently of humans.
(Australia, colloquial) A contemptible young person, a lout, a person who behaves wildly.
(Australia, colloquial) A person who has isolated themselves from the outside world; one living an alternative lifestyle.
(furry subculture) A character in furry art or literature which has the physical characteristics (body) of a regular animal (typically quadripedal), that may or may not be able to communicate with humans or anthros (contrasts anthro)
• Feral in the furry-related sense can refer to both regular animals as well as characters which have the bodies of regular animals but the intelligence of a human. Intelligent feral characters are often depicted as speaking with other characters, but may only be able to speak with other ferals and not humans or anthros due to a language barrier.
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Source: Wiktionary
Fe"ral, a. Etym: [L. ferus. See Fierce.] (Bot. & Zoöl.)
Definition: Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts, birds, and plants. feral child, not raised by humans
Fe"ral, a. Etym: [L. feralis, belonging to the dead.]
Definition: Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous. [R.] "Feral accidents." Burton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 June 2025
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
