wattle

About 0.37 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.
2. noun A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
3. noun A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards.
4. noun A barbel of a fish.
5. noun A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat.
6. noun Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person.
7. noun Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia, or their bark, used in tanning, seen as a national emblem of Australia.
8. noun An ear (organ of hearing).

Similar words

lappet daub wattlework wicker wale wire wickerwork tieback wall barbed wire wandwork

Often followed by

and bark fence huts trees walls or of is

Word family

wattled wattles wattling