Wilding

From wild + -ing.

Full definition of wilding

Noun

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 ....
• DrydenTen ruddy wildings in the wood I found.
• LandorThe fruit of the tree ... is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding.

Verb

1. Present participle of wild

Adjective

1. (poetic) Not tame or cultivated; wild.Wilding flowers. — Tennyson.The wilding bee hums merrily by. — Bryant.

From Dorothy Wilding

Noun

1. (usually in the plural, philately) Any British stamp with the image of Queen Elizabeth II, based on a portrait by Dorothy Wilding.