feral child \fe"ral child`\, n.
A child not raised in the company of humans; a child raised
by wild animals. Romulus and Remus in Roman mythology were
feral children. Authenticated examples of children raised by
beasts are rare or nonexistent, though there are stories of
children being raised from infancy in isolation from adults,
or in the presence of deaf and dumb adults, resulting in an
inability to speak human language.
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