wattle

English

Wattle (fold of skin in birds and lizards) hanging from a rooster’s neck.

A wattle (construction of woven branches) fence (bottom).

Wattles of a goat.

Acacia podalyriifolia, a wattle (Australian tree of the genus Acacia).

Etymology

From Middle English wattel, watel, from Old English watel, watul (“hurdle”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, wind, bend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɒtəl/
• enPR: wätʹəl, IPA^(key): /ˈwɒtəl/, [ˈwɑ.ɾl̩]
• Rhymes: -ɒtəl
• Homophone: what'll (in some accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

wattle (countable and uncountable, plural wattles)

1. A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.
   • (Can we date this quote by Tennyson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     And there he built with wattles from the marsh / A little lonely church in days of yore.

2. A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
3. A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards.
4. A barbel of a fish.
5. A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat.
6. Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person.
7. Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia, or their bark, used in tanning.

Coordinate terms

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

Derived terms

• black wattle (Acacia spp. and )
• golden wattle ()
• sunshine wattle ()
• wattle and daub
• wattle bagworm ()
• wattlebird (Anthochaera)
• wattle-eye (Platysteiridae)

 

Translations

construction of branches and twigs

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 籬牆／篱墙 (zh) (líqiáng), 篱墙 (zh) (líqiáng)

• Finnish: punos (fi)
• French: clayonnage (fr) m
• Galician: caínzo (gl) m, canizo (gl) m, quenzo m, caniza (gl) f
• German: Flechtwerk (de) n
• Greek: καλαμωτή (el) f (kalamotí), πλέγμα (el) n (plégma)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: caolach m, cleathóg f, cleith f
• Italian: canniccio, graticcio (it), intreccio di canne o vimini, recinzione (it) f
• Kannada: ತಡಿಕೆ (kn) (taḍike)
• Russian: плете́нь (ru) m (pleténʹ), плетёный забо́р m (pletjónyj zabór)
• Spanish: zarzo (es) m
• Ukrainian: пліт m (plit)

fold of skin hanging from the neck of birds

• Catalan: barballera f
• Finnish: heltta (fi)
• French: barbillon (fr) m
• Galician: mendrello m
• German: Kehllappen m
• Greek: λειρί (el) n (leirí)
• Indonesian: gelambir (id)
• Irish: sprochaille f
• Italian: bargiglio (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: werewere
• Persian: لار (lâr)
• Russian: серёжка (ru) f (serjóžka), боро́дка (ru) (boródka)
• Scottish Gaelic: cluigean m
• Spanish: carúncula (es) f, moco (es)
• Thai: เหนียง (th) (nǐiang)
• Ukrainian: борідка (uk) f (boridka)

fleshy appendage on the neck of goat

• Finnish: heltta (fi)
• Galician: beche m, barbacacho m
• German: Glöckchen (de) n, Berlocke (de) f
• Italian: barbazzale m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Persian: دگلان (deglân)
• Russian: боро́дка (ru) (boródka)

loose hanging skin

• Finnish: heltta (fi)
• Galician: feldrello m, pingallo m, peldracha f
• Italian: pappagorgia
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: двойно́й подборо́док m (dvojnój podboródok)
• Thai: เหนียง (th) (nǐiang)

Australian acacia

• Finnish: akasia (fi)
• Galician: acacia (gl) f
• Hebrew: שִׁטָּה (he) f (shitá)
• Irish: crann acaicia m
• Italian: acacia australiana
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: wātara, wātera, keiha
• Ngarrindjeri: wurruldi
• Russian: ака́ция (ru) f (akácija), австрали́йская ака́ция f (avstralíjskaja akácija)
• Ukrainian: австралійська акація f (avstralijsʹka akacija)

Verb

1. (transitive) To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.
2. (transitive) To bind with wattles or twigs.

Further reading

• wattle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia