(of animals )动物 living wild, especially after escaping from life as a pet or on a farm 野生的(尤指喂养后逃脱的) feral cats 野猫 - (figurative)
He looked at me with a feral grin (= like a wild animal). 他带着野性的笑容看着我。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryFeral is used with these nouns:- animal
- cat
- dog
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin fera ‘wild animal’ (from ferus ‘wild’) + -al.