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  • wild geranium
    [W3 different sp.] n. a plant, Ambrosia hispida: 1977 Wild geranium.. .is
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  • wild fig
     /wayl fiyg/ [DAE, any one of the wild Ficus sp.] n. 1. a tree: 1804 Under a wild fig tree
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  • wild eddy
    [from the resemblance of its inedible tubers to those of EDDY] n. a plant, Sansevieria trifasciata. LION TONGUE, SILK MANELLA (Black)
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  • wild down
    [see quot.] n. a shrub, Calotropus procera: 1920 (Britton 341). Wild down looks like grass; it has a long stalk with
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  • wild dilly
    see WILD SAPODILLA
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  • wild custard apple
    [cf. CUSTARD APPLE] n. a tree, Anona aquatica, and its fruit: 1835 (Journa 47). = CORKWOOD, POND APPLE (Black)
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  • wild coffee
    [W Car. various sp.; also Gul. (Gon­zales 1924:46)] n. a plant: 1905 Colubrina co­lubrina (Shattuck 225). 1910 Myrstiphyllum un (Northrop
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  • wild coco
    [W Car. Eulophia alta; cf. Coco] n. a trailing plant (sp?) bearing gourds formerly used to bail boats. (Black)
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  • wild cherry
    [from its cherry-like fruit] n. a tree, Malpighia sp., and its fruit: 1788 The Jamaica or "Wild Cherries", Malpighia glabra and urens, which
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  • wild cassada, wild cassava
    [W Car, different sp.] n. a plant: 1835 Starch. . .made from the wild Cassada (Journal 40). 1905 Dipholis salcifolia .
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