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

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

It is a warm winter day, as warm as a spring day in England, and around the fort, men are outside, working on everything from repairing wattle and daub walls to shucking corn.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

Titled “Immersion,” Clarke’s artwork is made of plywood paths set against straw wattles, with the coiled straw nodding to Cahuilla basket weaving traditions.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2023

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 Seattle 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

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

In Saxo the floor of the house consists of serpents wattled together, and the roof of sharp stings.

From Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland by Ph.D.

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

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

From Jim Davis by John Masefield

In the afternoon, the day being mild and sunny, there was a dance in the bowery,—a great arbour made of poles and brush and wattling.

From The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West by Harry Leon Wilson

Three men should make a hurdle in 2 hours, 2 wattling and the third preparing the rods.

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

In Norfolk, wattling a live fence is called ethering it, which word, evidently with yeather, may be derived from A.-S. ether or edor, a hedge.

From Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell