wildering

noun, adj — 2 senses

noun

Biology, Botany, Natural sciences A plant growing in a state of nature, especially one that has run wild or escaped from cultivation.

adj

Poetic Bewildering.

Alas! how weak is reason's wildering chain! How low we fall, from heights we seek to gain! The lamp of Science, through the mists afar, Fades like the sun upon the Georgian star; […]1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, The Georgian Planet, page 88:

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