This adjective that means "cunning" probably comes from the name of a "tamed" insectivore
[PAR] The majority of even cultivated men have not the time and means of acquiring ...... 
could human cunning rescue its wasted hillsides and its deserted plains from ..... 
of these articles comes from countries to which they are probably indigenous, ...... 
wild nature is not yet tamed down to the character it has assumed in the Old,... [DOC] [TLE] Ancestor's Tale, The - Dawkins R.A. -    [PAR] This doesn't mean, as I shall continue to argue, that there is a total dearth of ...