English

Proper noun

Wilding

1. A surname​.

Noun

Wilding ‎(plural Wildings)

1. (philately) Any of a series of British stamps that have an image of Queen Elizabeth II based on a portrait by Dorothy Wilding

English

Noun

wilding ‎(plural wildings)

1. A wild apple or apple-tree.
2. Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, wild apple, etc.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:

     Oft from the forrest wildings he did bring, / Whose sides empurpled were with smiling red [...].

   • Dryden

     Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found.

   • Landor

     The fruit of the tree […] is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding.

Verb

wilding

1. present participle of wild

Adjective

wilding ‎(not comparable)

1. (poetic) Not tame or cultivated; wild.

   Wilding flowers. — Tennyson.

   The wilding bee hums merrily by. — Bryant.