wattle
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- (UK) IPA: /ˈwɒtəl/, X-SAMPA: /"wQt@l/
- (US) enPR: wätʹəl, IPA: /ˈwɒtəl/, X-SAMPA: /"wQt@l/
- Rhymes: -ɒtəl
- Homophone: what'll (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Noun [edit]
wattle (plural wattles)
- A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.
- A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards.
- 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.
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Translations [edit]
construction of branches and twigs
fold of skin hanging from the neck of birds
fleshy appendage on the neck of goat
loose hanging skin
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Australian acacia
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Verb [edit]
wattle (third-person singular simple present wattles, present participle wattling, simple past and past participle wattled)
- (transitive) To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.