Definition of wattle

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Wattle (n.) A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile..

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Wattle :: Wattle (n.) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark..
Wattle :: Wattle (n.) Barbel of a fish.
Wattle :: Wattle (v. t.) To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches..
Wattled :: Wattled (a.) Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the chin or throat..
Wattle :: Wattle (n.) A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods..
Hurdle :: Hurdle (n.) A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes..
Caruncula :: Caruncula (n.) A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc..
Clayes :: Clayes (n. pl.) Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments..
Twattler :: Twattler (n.) One who twattles; a twaddler.
Wattlebird :: Wattlebird (n.) Any one of several species of honey eaters belonging to Anthochaera and allied genera of the family Meliphagidae. These birds usually have a large and conspicuous wattle of naked skin hanging down below each ear. They are natives of Australia and adjacent islands.
Wattle :: Wattle (n.) A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
Twattle :: Twattle (v. t.) To make much of, as a domestic animal; to pet..
Dub :: Dub (v. t.) To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles..
Wattle :: Wattle (v. t.) To form, by interweaving or platting twigs..
Twittle-twattle :: Twittle-twattle (n.) Tattle; gabble.
Wattle :: Wattle (v. t.) To bind with twigs.
Tragopan :: Tragopan (n.) Any one of several species of Asiatic pheasants of the genus Ceriornis. They are brilliantly colored with a variety of tints, the back and breast are usually covered with white or buff ocelli, and the head is ornamented with two bright-colored, fleshy wattles. The crimson tragopan, or horned pheasant (C. satyra), of India is one of the best-known species..
Twattle :: Twattle (v. i.) To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip..
Wattled :: Wattled (imp. & p. p.) of Wattl.
Gill :: Gill (n.) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
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