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nouna fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards
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nounany of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattletype of:
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verbbuild of or with wattle
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nounframework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence
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verbinterlace to form wattle
Definition that contains wattle
- weir a fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain fish
- wattle any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle
- wattle build of or with wattle
- wattle interlace to form wattle
- lapwing large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
- genus acacia large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa
- sarcorhamphus papa large black-and-white vulture of South America and Central America; have colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on head and neck
- tragopan brilliantly colored Asian pheasant having wattles and two fleshy processes on the head
- green plover large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
- umbrella bird black tropical American bird having a large overhanging crest and long feathered wattle