Dictionary entry

Wilding

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wild″ing, n.(Bot.) A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant. Spenser.

Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found. Dryden.

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