wattle

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

A 25-foot wattle that’s nine inches in diameter costs about $150 at home improvement stores.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2020

It makes the stone houses drip and the wattle and daub houses look soggy.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

The victims: Banksias, wattles, gum trees, and more.

From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 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

Jones said the hen - which has brown feathers and a red comb and wattles - is believed to be a Rhode Island red.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

He was an old man in suspenders, one useless eye wandering loose in its socket, poorly shaven wattles of skin at his throat—raw, chafed, and pinkish folds with sparse silver bristles poking out of them.

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

An outshoughi consists in a barrier of stakes planted across the river, and sometimes wattled.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell

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

The houses were mostly built of wattling, plastered over with clay; and the beds were only straw pallets, with a log of wood for a pillow.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

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

Slender poles set in the shallow water are held in place by wattling or interlacing of pliable parts.

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