wattle

The golden wattle, Australia's national floral emblem, is also represented.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

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

Within moments it was little more than a heap of thatch, wattle, and clay.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

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

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

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2018

To mitigate erosion and mudslide concerns, the county has added straw wattles to tributaries and K-rails to road shoulders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2018

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2015

Someone’s rescued hen fluttered up to the bow of our boat and strutted placidly along the gunwale, its delicate wattles shaking as it plucked up ants.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

They were all busily engaged within the hut, nailing sheets of moss over the wattled walls, when a curious squeaking noise began to attract Peggy's attention.

From A Terrible Tomboy by Brazil, Angela

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

Well, sir, I came to the first pitfall—and, lo and behold! something had been and taken the bait and got away with it without so much as putting a foot through the wattling.

From It, and Other Stories by Morris, Gouverneur

But I don't know what wattling a screen is.

From Foul Play by Reade, Charles

In Norfolk, wattling a live fence is called ethering it, which word, evidently with yeather, may be derived from A.-S. ether or edor, a hedge.

From Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

If the brush is small, uniform, and pliable, pairing will make a better wattling than randing.

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