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Wandering   /wˈɑndərɪŋ/   Listen
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Wandering  n.  A. & n. from Wander, v.
Wandering albatross (Zool.), the great white albatross.
Wandering cell (Physiol.), an animal cell which possesses the power of spontaneous movement, as one of the white corpuscles of the blood.
Wandering Jew (Bot.), any one of several creeping species of Tradescantia, which have alternate, pointed leaves, and a soft, herbaceous stem which roots freely at the joints. They are commonly cultivated in hanging baskets, window boxes, etc.
Wandering kidney (Med.), a morbid condition in which one kidney, or, rarely, both kidneys, can be moved in certain directions; called also floating kidney, movable kidney.
Wandering liver (Med.), a morbid condition of the liver, similar to wandering kidney.
Wandering mouse (Zool.), the whitefooted, or deer, mouse.
Wandering spider (Zool.), any one of a tribe of spiders that wander about in search of their prey.






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"Wandering" Quotes from Famous Books



... I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come: No matter what beauties I saw in my way; They were but my visits, but ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray

... The wandering musician made strenuous objection, however, to leaving the ice cream parlor. "I could eat more chok'lit cream," ...
— Marjorie Dean - High School Sophomore • Pauline Lester

... Night was shutting in too, and the first thing I knew I wasn't anywhere in particular, with nothing in sight but an old sheep pen. I tried bunking there; but it wasn't restful, and before daylight I went wandering on again. I wanted to locate our advance and get a cup ...
— On With Torchy • Sewell Ford

... had not spoken; but her eyes had been wandering over the many splendours of the room. Suddenly she lifted them to the handsome face above her, and said in a ...
— Adrien Leroy • Charles Garvice

... be he would discover the fire of some Ishmaelite of the forest, a wandering "timber-cruiser," marking out new and promising fields for those he served, and surveying the scene of possible future ...
— Canoe Mates in Canada - Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan • St. George Rathborne


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