wattle

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

Other species making use of color for courtship include the fan-throated lizard, with a wattle of iridescent blue and orange, and the Siamese fighting fish, its tail bristling with blood-orange finnage.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2020

A 25-foot wattle that’s nine inches in diameter costs about $150 at home improvement stores.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2020

So many weeks we spent cutting trees, splitting clapboard, tying thatch, making wattle and daub.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

Normally, turkeys top out around 20 pounds, with fleshy wattles that hang down their necks and another protuberance called a snood hanging over the beak.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022

Jones said the hen - which has brown feathers and a red comb and wattles - is believed to be a Rhode Island red.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

To mitigate erosion and mudslide concerns, the county has added straw wattles to tributaries and K-rails to road shoulders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2018

Together, they almost look like the wattles of the two turkeys she pardons in grand, ridiculous, Thanksgiving presidential tradition.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2016

He let her scold, shake her wattles at him.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

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

The palisades should be made of strong saplings, wattled together, say, ten feet high.

From A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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

In connection with this wattling and daubing of Virginia buildings, the two early churches on Eastern Shore are believed to have been puncheoned edifices.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman

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 wattling was made fairly waterproof by masses of gorse and bracken driven in among the boughs.

From Jim Davis by John Masefield

The houses were mostly built of wattling, plastered over with clay; and the beds were only straw pallets, with a log of wood for a pillow.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown