wattle

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Singular
wattle

Plural
wattles

wattle (plural wattles)

  1. A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof
  2. A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards
  3. A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat
  4. Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person
  5. Any of several Australian trees of the Genus Acacia

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Infinitive
to wattle

Third person singular
wattles

Simple past
wattled

Past participle
wattled

Present participle
wattling

to wattle (third-person singular simple present wattles, present participle wattling, simple past and past participle wattled)

  1. (transitive) To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles