wattle
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
wattle
- A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Holy Grail
- And there he built with wattles from the marsh / A little lonely church in days of yore.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Holy Grail
- A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
- A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards.
- A barbel of a fish.
- A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat.
- Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person.
- Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia, or their bark, used in tanning.
- French: clayonnage
- German: Flechtwerk
- Italian: canniccio, graticcio, intreccio di canne o vimini, recinzione
- Russian: плете́нь
- Spanish: zarzo
- Italian: pappagorgia
- Russian: двойно́й подборо́док
- Italian: acacia australiana
- Russian: ака́ция
wattle (wattles, present participle wattling; past and past participle wattled)
- (transitive) To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.
- (transitive) To bind with wattles or twigs.
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