wattle

The golden wattle, Australia's national floral emblem, is also represented.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

In comparison, carbon-capture plantations are usually monocultures and are dominated globally by just five tree species -- teak, mahogany, cedar, silk oak, and black wattle -- that are grown for timber, pulp, or agroforestry.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2023

The seasonal link between, say, a wattle flowering and the arrival of fish species is breaking down.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2022

The queen’s death on Sept. 8 came in the Southern Hemisphere spring when wattle blooms, its golden flowers and green leaves reflecting Australia’s national colors in what has become a symbol of unity.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022

Every house was roofed with thatch, and had walls of wattle and daub.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

The feathered and fidgety duo settled into their new pens, their vibrant red wattles jiggling with every step, a stark contrast to their icy pale faces.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2022

Crews were also placing straw tubing known as wattles along stream edges to prevent sediment from washing into the waterway amid rain or snowfall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2021

Think of staying resolute: Think of orange wattles in an orange suit.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2018

Payo’s red comb and wattles shake as he jerks his head around like a robot and stares at his visitors.

From Washington Times ● May 28, 2018

He pulled the wattles of skin at his throat again and gazed at the ceiling for a moment.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Although I suppose if either was your cousin, while you’d be portrayed as mad and wattled, the portrait would be worth millions.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2021

Our near silence left undisturbed an African jacana, whose long toes enable it to spread its weight over floating lily pads, and a rare pair of wattled cranes—birds that stand almost 6 feet tall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2015

Skirmishes between lovers and haters of the wattled invaders have existed since the ducks made their way here from South and Central America.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 13, 2015

Although I suppose if either was your cousin, while you'd be portrayed as mad and wattled, the portrait would be worth millions.

From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2014

I hid her in this wattled house, I served her water and poor bread.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne

A bacon bouse of two-score ribs, A wattling of tripe—support of clans— Of every food pleasant to man, Meseemed the whole was gathered there.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

These trees were first called wattles from being used by the early settlers for forming a network or wattling of the supple twigs as a substitute for laths in plastering houses.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by William Saunders

The term wattling is applied to such constructions as employ by interlacing, plaiting, etc., somewhat heavy, rigid, or slightly pliable parts, as rods, boughs, canes, and vines.

From Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46 by William Henry Holmes

The wires should be made fast to the pickets after the wattling is done.

From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

Consolidation of the scarps of the ravines by grading and wattling and establishing barriers, sometimes of solid masonry, but generally of fascines or any other simple materials at hand, across the bed of the stream.

From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh