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Wattle

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Noun

1. lappet, wattle

a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards

2. wattle

framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence

3. wattle

any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle

Verb

4. wattle

build of or with wattle

5. wattle

interlace to form wattle

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Wattle

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noun
1. 
a frame of rods or stakes interwoven with twigs, branches, etc, esp when used to make fences
2. 
the material used in such a construction
3. 
a loose fold of skin, often brightly coloured, hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds, lizards, etc
4. 
any of various chiefly Australian acacia trees having spikes of small brightly coloured flowers and flexible branches, which were used by early settlers for making fences
See also golden wattle
5. 
a southern African caesalpinaceous tree, Peltophorum africanum, with yellow flowers
verb (transitive)
6. 
to construct from wattle
7. 
to bind or frame with wattle
8. 
to weave or twist (branches, twigs, etc) into a frame
adjective
9. 
made of, formed by, or covered with wattle
adjective
English Midlands dialect
of poor quality

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Wattle

see synonyms of wattle
noun
1. 
a sort of woven work made of sticks intertwined with twigs or branches, used for walls, fences, and roofs
2.  British, Dialectal
a. 
a stick, rod, twig, or wand
b. 
a hurdle or framework made of sticks, rods, etc.
3.  [pl.]
rods or poles used as the support of a thatched roof
4.  Austral
any of various acacias: the flexible branches were much used by early settlers for making wattles
5. 
a fleshy, wrinkled, often brightly colored piece of skin which hangs from the chin or throat of certain birds, as the turkey, or of some lizards
6. 
a barbel of a fish
7.  [often pl.]
a fold or pouch of flesh hanging from the neck or lower part of the jaw
adjective
8. 
made of or roofed with wattle or wattles
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈwattled or ˈwattling
9. 
to twist or intertwine (sticks, twigs, branches, etc.) so as to form an interwoven structure or fabric
10. 
to construct (a fence) by intertwining sticks or twigs
11. 
to build of, or roof, fence, etc. with, wattle

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Wattle

see synonyms of wattle
n.
1.
a. A construction of poles intertwined with twigs, reeds, or branches, used for walls, fences, and roofs.
b. Material used for such construction.
2. Botany Any of various Australian trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
tr.v. wat·tled, wat·tling, wat·tles
1. To construct from wattle.
2. To weave into wattle.
n.
A fleshy, wrinkled, often brightly colored fold of skin usually hanging from the neck or throat, characteristic of certain birds, reptiles, and mammals.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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