wattle

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈwɒtəl/, SAMPA: /"wQt@l/
• (US) enPR: wätʹəl, IPA: /ˈwɒtəl/, SAMPA: /"wQt@l/
• Rhymes: -ɒtəl

• Homophone: what'll (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

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 and shrubs of the genus Acacia.

Derived terms

• wattle and daub

Coordinate terms

• (skin on head of birds): caruncle, comb, cockscomb, crest, snood

Translations

construction of branches and twigs

Chinese: Mandarin: 籬牆 (zh), 篱墙 (zh) (líqiáng) Italian: canniccio (it), graticcio (it), intreccio di canne o vimini (it)

Russian: плетень (ru) (pletén’) m., плетёный забор (ru) (pletjónyj zabór) m. Ukrainian: пліт (uk) (plit) m.

fold of skin hanging from the neck of birds

Finnish: heltta (fi) Italian: bargiglio (it) Russian: серёжка (ru) (serjóžka) f., бородка (ru) (boródka)

Scottish Gaelic: cluigean (gd) m. Spanish: carúncula (es) f. Ukrainian: борідка (uk) f.

fleshy appendage on the neck of goat

Finnish: heltta (fi) Italian: barbazzale (it) m.

Russian: бородка (ru) (boródka)

loose hanging skin

Finnish: heltta (fi) Italian: pappagorgia (it)

Russian: двойной подбородок (ru) (dvojnój podboródok) m.

Australian acacia

Finnish: akasia (fi) Italian: acacia australiana (it) Ngarrindjeri: wurruldi

Russian: акация (ru) (akácija) f., австралийская акация (ru) (avstralíjskaja akácija) f. Ukrainian: австралійська акація (uk) f.

Verb

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.