wattle
/wot-l/US // ˈwɒt l //UK // (ˈwɒtəl) //
黄牛,荆棘,荆条,荆树
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n.名词 noun
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- : Often wattles. a number of rods or stakes interwoven with twigs or tree branches for making fences, walls, etc.
- : wattles, a number of poles laid on a roof to hold thatch.
- : any of various acacias whose shoots and branches were used by the early colonists for wattles, now valued especially for their bark, which is used in tanning.
- : a fleshy lobe or appendage hanging down from the throat or chin of certain birds, as the domestic chicken or turkey.
v.有主动词 verb
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wat·tled, wat·tling.
- : to bind, wall, fence, etc., with wattle or wattles.
- : to roof or frame with or as if with wattles.
- : to form into a basketwork; interweave; interlace.
- : to make or construct by interweaving twigs or branches: to wattle a fence.
adj.形容词 adjective
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- : built or roofed with wattle or wattles.
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Examples
Your value increases every year and for developing neck wattles that comfort small granddaughters.
Very little of the earlier buildings remained, as they all appear to have been built of wood and wattle-and-daub.
As for "wattle and daub" I could wish that it had never been invented.
I skulked in the scrub as he came up—just behind a clump of wattle.
The first man was formed out of the gum of a wattle-tree, and came out of the knot of a wattle-tree.
A boy pushed the bracken and ferny grey and green wattle sprays from before a lichen-grown wooden cross.
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