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

Over time, they expanded the city with landfill and planted crops on floating gardens called chinampas, plots of arable soil created from wattle and sediment.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2017

Every house was roofed with thatch, and had walls of wattle and daub.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

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

From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

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

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

Think of staying resolute: Think of orange wattles in an orange suit.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2018

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

And between the diaphanous foliage of the bamboos there appeared a small house, built half of stone, half of wattled bamboo, surrounded by a little garden containing a few white pots of roses.

From The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java by Louis Couperus

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

Much finer willow-wands are used to wattle, or weave, the basket-work; ribs of split osiers are added, and the wattling goes in and out among them, and at once secures them and rests upon them.

From Miscellanea by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

The wires should be made fast to the pickets after the wattling is done.

From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

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

He made a stubborn resistance from behind a wattling fence, on a hill thickly covered with pine.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin