wattle

The logo depicted a red tulip and a golden wattle - the national flowers of Australia and Afghanistan - entwined around a cricket ball.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2025

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

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

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

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

“It’s realism on top, see,” he says as he shows off the ceramic lid with a perfect, proud chicken head, the comb, the wattles, the puffed breast.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2019

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

Beak roundish, bluntish; forehead wattled; wings spurred: 5 species.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray

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 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

When the posts of a fort were wattled six inches apart, it was comparatively easy for the defenders to shoot through cracks in the wattling.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman

Another somewhat usual use of wattling is mentioned by various authors.

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

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