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wattle, in botany: see acacia acacia (əkā`shə), any plant of the large leguminous genus Acacia, ..... Click the link for more information. . wattle 1. a loose fold of skin, often brightly coloured, hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds, lizards, etc. 2. any of various chiefly Australian acacia trees having spikes of small brightly coloured flowers and flexible branches, which were used by early settlers for making fences 3. a southern African caesalpinaceous tree, Peltophorum africanum, with yellow flowers How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| To the left, not far from the farthest cannon, was a small, newly constructed wattle shed from which came the sound of officers' voices in eager conversation. The horse kept straight along the road through the drifted snow, and before they had gone another hundred yards the straight line of the dark wattle wall of a barn showed up black before them, its roof heavily covered with snow which poured down from it. The huts are dome-shaped, and built, like those of the Zulus, of a framework of wattle, beautifully thatched with grass; but, unlike the Zulu huts, they have doorways through which men could walk. |
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