savageadjective

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Uncontrolled
all hell breaks looseidiom
amok
amuck
corybantic
crazily
madding
maniacal
maniacally
non-regulated
out of handidiom
spread like wildfireidiom
squirrelly
tearaway
unbridled
uncheckable
wayward
waywardly
waywardness
wig out
wigged out

Examples of feral

feral
Furthermore, the large body size of females considerably reduces their potential predators and practically only feral cats and raptors can access them.
Some can then be found in the wild as feral populations, and are considered introduced.
Her voice is dispersed among them, split off from the frighteningly agitated and feral body that the audience glimpses at the start of the scene.
In rural areas, feral cats are dependent on hunting rodent and bird prey and occur in much lower densities.
For feral cattle, on the other hand, intervention measures such as vaccination may not be achievable.
The population density of feral cats in urban areas depends largely on the amount of accessible food waste discarded by the human population.
Occupiers had to give notice of feral muskrats on their land.
It must be admitted that a limitation of this analysis is insufficiently detailed historical information on fire impacts and feral animal distributions.
There is interaction between these cycles through a range of carnivores (domestic dogs, feral dogs, dingoes and red foxes) which act as definitive hosts.
Effect of fasting neonatal metabolites in feral and domestic piglets on blood hormone and metabolite profiles and on skeletal muscle metabolism.
Many cultivars are clones of edible wild for ms and a few putative wild for ms are probably feral plants that have escaped from cultivation.
Feral flies captured by the traps were also removed, counted and dissected.
However, it is possible to observe a deterioration of the attractive traits exhibited by a cultivar when it becomes feral.
Ecological observations on a feral mouse population declining to extinction.
This species was also relatively frequent in feral cats.
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