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  • wild canella
    [cf. Sp. canela cinnamon] n. the wild cinnamon tree, Canella alba or C. winterana: 1889 (Gardner 365). cf. BAHAMA WHITE-WOOD BARK
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  • wild cane
    [W Car, different sp.; from its resemb­lance to sugar cane] n. a plant, Lasiacis divari­cata: 1920 (Britton 25). = CANE GRASS
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  • wild bush bean
     [cf. DAE wild bean (P. diversi­folius)] n. a pod-bearing plant, Phaseolus lathy­roides: 1920 (Britton 194). (Exuma, San Sal.)
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  • wild basil, wild bassly
    n. 1 [W Car.; cf. BASSLY ] a plant, Ocimum micranthum: 1920 (Britton 380). (Exuma, Nassau) 2. a plant, Hyptis suaveolens: 1920
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  • wild bamboo
    n. a plant (sp?): 1978 Small cane . .resembles wild bamboo (Higgs 13). (Gen.)
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  • wild balsam apple
    n. a plant, Momordica charantic: 1920 (Britton 425). = CERASEE (Exuma) 
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  • wild avocado
    n. a tree, Caesaria guidonia: 1977 (Patterson 23). (Exuma)
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  • wild
    [cf. OED, of a plant: not cultivated] adj. (in plant names) applied to species resembling but not identical with the species
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  • wild: go wild in the bush
    [cf. OED run wild to revert to a state of nature; cf. BUSH hinterland] phr. (of whites) to go native;
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  • wigs
    n. sing. or pl. wig: She got a wigs on her head (Nassau).
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