To run wild, to go unrestrained or untamed; to live or untamed; to live or grow without culture or training.

To sow one's wild oats. See under Oat.

Wild allspice. (Bot.), spicewood.

Wild balsam apple (Bot.), an American climbing cucurbitaceous plant (Echinocystis lobata).

Wild basil (Bot.), a fragrant labiate herb (Calamintha Clinopodium) common in Europe and America.

Wild bean (Bot.), a name of several leguminous plants, mostly species of Phaseolus and Apios.

Wild bee (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of undomesticated social bees, especially the domestic bee when it has escaped from domestication and built its nest in a hollow tree or among rocks.

Wild bergamot. (Bot.) See under Bergamot.

Wild boar (Zo["o]l.), the European wild hog (Sus scrofa), from which the common domesticated swine is descended.

Wild brier (Bot.), any uncultivated species of brier. See Brier.

Wild bugloss (Bot.), an annual rough-leaved plant (Lycopsis arvensis) with small blue flowers.

Wild camomile (Bot.), one or more plants of the composite genus Matricaria, much resembling camomile.

Wild cat. (Zo["o]l.)
   (a) A European carnivore (Felis catus) somewhat resembling the domestic cat, but larger stronger, and having a short tail. It is destructive to the smaller domestic animals, such as lambs, kids, poultry, and the like.
   (b) The common American lynx, or bay lynx.
   (c) (Naut.) A wheel which can be adjusted so as to revolve either with, or on, the shaft of a capstan. --Luce.

Wild celery. (Bot.) See Tape grass, under Tape.

Wild cherry. (Bot.)
   (a) Any uncultivated tree which bears cherries. The wild red cherry is Prunus Pennsylvanica. The wild black cherry is P. serotina, the wood of which is much used for cabinetwork, being of a light red color and a compact texture.
   (b) The fruit of various species of Prunus.

Wild cinnamon. See the Note under Canella.

Wild comfrey (Bot.), an American plant (Cynoglossum Virginicum) of the Borage family. It has large bristly leaves and small blue flowers.

Wild cumin (Bot.), an annual umbelliferous plant (Lag[oe]cia cuminoides) native in the countries about the Mediterranean.

Wild drake (Zo["o]l.) the mallard.

Wild elder (Bot.), an American plant (Aralia hispida) of the Ginseng family.

Wild fowl (Zo["o]l.) any wild bird, especially any of those considered as game birds.

Wild goose (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of undomesticated geese, especially the Canada goose (Branta Canadensis), the European bean goose, and the graylag. See Graylag, and Bean goose, under Bean.

Wild goose chase, the pursuit of something unattainable, or of something as unlikely to be caught as the wild goose. --Shak.

Wild honey, honey made by wild bees, and deposited in trees, rocks, the like.

Wild hyacinth. (Bot.) See Hyacinth, 1
   (b) .

Wild Irishman (Bot.), a thorny bush (Discaria Toumatou) of the Buckthorn family, found in New Zealand, where the natives use the spines in tattooing.

Wild land.
   (a) Land not cultivated, or in a state that renders it unfit for cultivation.
   (b) Land which is not settled and cultivated.

Wild licorice. (Bot.) See under Licorice.

Wild mammee (Bot.), the oblong, yellowish, acid fruit of a tropical American tree (Rheedia lateriflora); -- so called in the West Indies.

Wild marjoram (Bot.), a labiate plant (Origanum vulgare) much like the sweet marjoram, but less aromatic.

Wild oat. (Bot.)
   (a) A tall, oatlike kind of soft grass (Arrhenatherum avenaceum).
   (b) See Wild oats, under Oat.

Wild pieplant (Bot.), a species of dock (Rumex hymenosepalus) found from Texas to California. Its acid, juicy stems are used as a substitute for the garden rhubarb.

Wild pigeon. (Zo["o]l.)
   (a) The rock dove.
   (b) The passenger pigeon.

Wild pink (Bot.), an American plant (Silene Pennsylvanica) with pale, pinkish flowers; a kind of catchfly.

Wild plantain (Bot.), an arborescent endogenous herb (Heliconia Bihai), much resembling the banana. Its leaves and leaf sheaths are much used in the West Indies as coverings for packages of merchandise.

Wild plum. (Bot.)
   (a) Any kind of plum growing without cultivation.
   (b) The South African prune. See under Prune.

Wild rice. (Bot.) See Indian rice, under Rice.

Wild rosemary (Bot.), the evergreen shrub Andromeda polifolia. See Marsh rosemary, under Rosemary.

Wild sage. (Bot.) See Sagebrush.

Wild sarsaparilla (Bot.), a species of ginseng (Aralia nudicaulis) bearing a single long-stalked leaf.

Wild sensitive plant (Bot.), either one of two annual leguminous herbs (Cassia Cham[ae]crista, and C. nictitans), in both of which the leaflets close quickly when the plant is disturbed.

Wild service.(Bot.) See Sorb.

Wild Spaniard (Bot.), any one of several umbelliferous plants of the genus Aciphylla, natives of New Zealand. The leaves bear numerous bayonetlike spines, and the plants form an impenetrable thicket.

Wild turkey. (Zo["o]l.) See 2d Turkey.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Two or three hundred varieties of plums derived from the Prunus domestica are described; among them the greengage, the Orleans, the purple gage, or Reine Claude Violette, and the German prune, are some of the best known.

Note: Among the true plums are;

Beach plum, the Prunus maritima, and its crimson or purple globular drupes,

Bullace plum. See Bullace.

Chickasaw plum, the American Prunus Chicasa, and its round red drupes.

Orleans plum, a dark reddish purple plum of medium size, much grown in England for sale in the markets.

Wild plum of America, Prunus Americana, with red or yellow fruit, the original of the Iowa plum and several other varieties. Among plants called plum, but of other genera than Prunus, are;

Australian plum, Cargillia arborea and C. australis, of the same family with the persimmon.

Blood plum, the West African H[ae]matostaphes Barteri.

Cocoa plum, the Spanish nectarine. See under Nectarine.

Date plum. See under Date.

Gingerbread plum, the West African Parinarium macrophyllum.

Gopher plum, the Ogeechee lime.

Gray plum, Guinea plum. See under Guinea.

Indian plum, several species of Flacourtia.

2. A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.

3. A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of [pounds]100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.

Plum bird, Plum budder (Zo["o]l.), the European bullfinch.

Plum gouger (Zo["o]l.), a weevil, or curculio (Coccotorus scutellaris), which destroys plums. It makes round holes in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva bores into the stone and eats the kernel.

Plum weevil (Zo["o]l.), an American weevil which is very destructive to plums, nectarines cherries, and many other stone fruits. It lays its eggs in crescent-shaped incisions made with its jaws. The larva lives upon the pulp around the stone. Called also turk, and plum curculio. See Illust. under Curculio.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Prunus \Pru"nus\, n. [L., a plum tree.]

(Bot.) A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening.

Note: Originally, this genus was limited to the plums, then, by Linn[ae]us, was made to include the cherries and the apricot. Later botanists separated these into several genera, as Prunus, Cerasus, and Armeniaca, but now, by Bentham and Hooker, the plums, cherries, cherry laurels, peach, almond, and nectarine are all placed in Prunus.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)