The lamas and the pacos afford the best bezoar when in their natural or wild state: those produced in their state of slavery are small, black, and of but little or no virtue.
The horse, the camel, and the common bull and cow are nowhere found in a wild state, and they have all been domesticated from remote antiquity.
De Candolle states that out of 157 useful cultivated plants thirty-two are quite unknown in a wild state, and that forty more are of doubtful origin.
More recently, in New Zealand, pigs have multiplied so greatly in a wild state as to be a serious nuisance and injury to agriculture.
Martius declared in 1867, that is after having received a quantity of information of a later date than his journey, that the plant was not known in a wild state.
The greater number of ancient historians have confused the fact of the cultivation of a species in a country with that of its previous existence there in a wild state.
In a wild state it flowers in March and April, but under cultivation it is much earlier.
In a wild state, he is a faithful husband, desiring but one wife, and devoting himself to her; but no sooner is he domesticated than he becomes polygamous, and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time.
It would appear, however, somewhat unaccountable why, in a wild state, they adhere so steadily to the song of their own species only, when the notes of so many others are to be heard around them.
Mimi had never been on a coach before, and was in a wild state of delight when all four horses galloped up the hills, and they blew the horns at all the railway stations and passing thro' the villages.
As soon as our audience was over we returned to the large audience hall, where we found Benckendorff tearing his hair, in a wild state, because we were late--all our colleagues had taken their places.
The Black Pepper (Piper nigrum) of India and the Sunda Isles we find perfectly acclimatized in this part of Africa, and it flourishes even in a wild state.
In general, the musa, known by every people under the torrid zone, though hitherto never found in a wild state, has as great a variety of fruit as our apple and pear trees.
It has never been found in a wild state on the continent of Africa.
This last tree is met with in Portugal, in a wild state.
The plumeria, so common in the gardens of the Indians, has been very seldom found in a wild state.
In a wild state he would doubtless have abandoned his claim, and fled to some other place without an attempt to drive them away, but in this instance he had acquired the idea of the rights of possession.
Tedious details are relieved by an ample supply of anecdotes taken from the writer's own observations, and most of them are the acts of his own pets or of apes in a wild state.
The Llama was the only beast of burden made use of by the Peruvians at the time America was discovered by Europeans, and it exists nowhere else in a wild state.
In a wild state it takes into its stomach large pebbles, to increase its digestive powers; in captivity it gorges bits of wood and metal, pieces of glass, plaster and chalk, probably with the same object.
Very little is known of their habits in a wild state, as it is only by accident that they come out in open places, or where the country is inhabited.
In a wild state, the Civet lives entirely on birds and small quadrupeds; and at any time a small quantity of salt is said to poison it.
Their roar is terrific: and in a wild state, the animal generally roars with his mouth close to the ground, which produces a low rumbling noise, like that of an earthquake.
In a wild state, this Bear feeds on vegetables and honey.
Originally this species inhabited "northern Mongolia" (China), but in a wild state it became extinct before its zoological standing became known to the scientific world.
No wild species should be transplanted and set free in a wild state to stock new regions without consulting men of wisdom, and following their advice.
Extermination in a wild state means that the only living representatives are in captivity or otherwise under protection.
This splendid bird was brought originally from Asia, but it is now common in Europe, especially in the parks and preserves of England, where it lives in a wild state.
In Asia, there are multitudes of these animals around the towns, which live in a half-wild state, calling no man master.
I believe it is their natural disposition; for they certainly are the most amusing creatures imaginable, in a wild state.
He feeds chiefly at night, in a wild state, and sleeps during the day.
Naturalists deny that there are any true dogs living in a wild state.
First, we shall speak of the true dogs living in a wild state--that is, apart from the society of man.
As one raiser says: "They do well in a semi-wild state.
In their natural or wild state, they often hole up in shallow dens, old logs, trees, etc.
While the animals will dig dens if necessary, they prefer even while in a wild state to use dens already made.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wild state" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
