wattle

English

A wattle (construction of woven branches) fence (bottom).

Wattle (fold of skin in birds and lizards) hanging from a rooster’s neck.

Wattles of a goat.

Acacia podalyriifolia, a wattle (Australian tree of the genus Acacia).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈwɒtəl/, X-SAMPA: /"wQt@l/
• (US) enPR: wätʹəl, IPA: /ˈwɒtəl/, X-SAMPA: /"wQt@l/
• Rhymes: -ɒtəl

• Homophone: what'll (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

wattle (plural wattles)

1. A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.
2. A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards.
3. A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat.
4. Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person.
5. Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia.

Derived terms

• wattle and daub

Coordinate terms

• (skin on head of birds): caruncle, comb, cockscomb, crest, snood

Translations

construction of branches and twigs

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 籬牆 (cmn), 篱墙 (cmn) (líqiáng)

• Greek: καλαμωτή (el) (kalamotí) f
• Italian: canniccio (it), graticcio (it), intreccio di canne o vimini (it)

• Kannada: ತಡಿಕೆ (kn) (taḍike)
• Russian: плетень (ru) (pletén’) m, плетёный забор (ru) (pletjónyj zabór) m
• Spanish: zarzo (es) m
• Ukrainian: пліт (uk) (plit) m

fold of skin hanging from the neck of birds

• Catalan: barballera (ca) f
• Finnish: heltta (fi)
• Greek: λειρί (el) (leirí)
• Italian: bargiglio (it)
• Maori: werewere (mi)

• Russian: серёжка (ru) (serjóžka) f, бородка (ru) (boródka)
• Scottish Gaelic: cluigean (gd) m
• Spanish: carúncula (es) f
• Ukrainian: борідка (uk) (boridka) f

fleshy appendage on the neck of goat

• Finnish: heltta (fi)
• Italian: barbazzale (it) m

• Russian: бородка (ru) (boródka)

loose hanging skin

• Finnish: heltta (fi)
• Italian: pappagorgia (it)

• Russian: двойной подбородок (ru) (dvojnój podboródok) m

Australian acacia

• Finnish: akasia (fi)
• Italian: acacia australiana (it)
• Ngarrindjeri: wurruldi

• Russian: акация (ru) (akácija) f, австралийская акация (ru) (avstralíjskaja akácija) f
• Ukrainian: австралійська акація (uk) (avstralijsʹka akacija) f

Verb

wattle (third-person singular simple present wattles, present participle wattling, simple past and past participle wattled)

1. (transitive) To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.