American English pronunciation
How to pronounce wattle
IPA transcription: ['wɑtəl]
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Noun
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a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards
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framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence
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any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle
Verb
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build of or with wattle
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interlace to form wattle
Usage examples
- Red-eyed wattle can be used to help stabilise coastal sands.
- In the southern Byadbo wilderness area, dry sclerophyll and wattle forests predominate.
- Wattle Park Kindergarten is located on Yeltana Avenue.
- Wattle Glen has a small primary school known as Wattle Glen Primary School.
- The other houses seem to have had simple wattle and daub walls.
- The family contains the wattle-eyes, batises and shrike-flycatchers.
- Locals also gather at the Wattle Glen Cricket Club.
- The little wattlebird is a medium to large honeyeater, but the smallest wattlebird.
- Wattleup had many market gardens in the past.
- At his throat hang several black, unfeathered wattles.