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Wattle Point Windmill
Wattle or wattles may refer to: Plants *''Acacia sensu lato'', polyphyletic genus of plants commonly known as wattle, especially in Australia and South Africa **''Acacia'', large genus of shrubs and trees, native to Australasia **Black wattle, common name for several species of acacia **Golden wattle, ''Acacia pycnantha'', species of acacia which is the official floral emblem of Australia ** Sunshine wattle, ''Acacia terminalis'', species of acacia which grows in southeastern Australia *''Callicoma'', also known as black wattle, although unrelated to the acacia species Other uses * Steam Tug ''Wattle'', vessel formerly in commercial service in Victoria Harbour, Melbourne, Australia *Wallace Wattles (1860–1911), American New Thought writer, author *Wattle (anatomy), fleshy growth hanging from the head or neck of certain animals. *Wattle (construction), woven strips of wood forming panels used for fencing or for walling **Wattle and daub, a building technique using woven wooden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Sensu Lato
''Acacia s.l.'' (pronounced or ), known commonly as mimosa, acacia, thorntree or wattle, is a polyphyletic genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae. It was described by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1773 based on the African species ''Acacia nilotica''. Many non-Australian species tend to be thorny, whereas the majority of Australian acacias are not. All species are pod-bearing, with sap and leaves often bearing large amounts of tannins and condensed tannins that historically found use as pharmaceuticals and preservatives. The genus ''Acacia'' constitutes, in its traditional circumspection, the second largest genus in Fabaceae (''Astragalus'' being the largest), with roughly 1,300 species, about 960 of them native to Australia, with the remainder spread around the tropical to warm-temperate regions of both hemispheres, including Europe, Africa, southern Asia, and the Americas (see List of ''Acacia'' species). The genus wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wattle (construction)
Wattle is made by weaving flexible branches around upright stakes to form a woven lattice. The wattle may be made into an individual panel, commonly called a hurdle, or it may be formed into a continuous fence. Wattles also form the basic structure for wattle and daub wall construction, where wattling is '' daubed'' with a plaster-like substance to make a weather-resistant wall. History Evidence of wattle construction was found at Woodcutts Settlement from the British Iron Age,The Development of English Building Construction by C. F. Innocent (1916) and the Roman wrote about wattles in his book on architecture, '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wattle Day
Wattle Day is a day of celebration in Australia on the first day of September each year, which is the official start of the Australian spring. This is the time when many ''Acacia'' species (commonly called wattles in Australia), are in flower. So, people wear a sprig of the flowers and leaves to celebrate the day. Although the national floral emblem of Australia is a particular species, named the golden wattle (''Acacia pycnantha''), any acacia can be worn to celebrate the day. The day was originally intended to promote patriotism for the new nation of Australia:"Wattle Days emerged to prominence in Australia in the early years of the federated nation. They took on some of the national and civic responsibilities for children that he more formalAustralia Day could not." - Libby Robin Tasmanian origin, 1838 On 1 December 1838, the first Hobart Town Anniversary Regatta was held in Hobart, Tasmania to celebrate the Anniversary of the 17th-century European discovery of the islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wattle Bagworm
The wattle bagworm (''Kotochalia junodi'', formerly ''Acanthopsyche junodi'') is a species of moth in the family Psychidae. In southern Africa it is a pest of the black wattle ('' Acacia mearnsii'') which is grown largely as a source of vegetable tannin. ''Kotochalia junodi'' is indigenous to Southern Africa, where it originally fed on indigenous relatives of the wattle. Like all members of the family Psychidae, the male larva develops into an adult in a mobile silken bag covered with materials such as thorns and twigs. Only once it is mature does it leave the bag to mate. The female never leaves her bag. In spring the eggs hatch in the bag in which the adult female had grown. Because the female never leaves the tree in which she grew and died, the insects need some other way to move to new trees or in general to disperse, and in fact the newly hatched (first-instar) larva is the dispersive stage of the wattle bagworm life cycle. The larva spins a silken thread on which it ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waddle (other)
Waddle may refer to: * Waddle, Pennsylvania, United States * Waddle (surname) Waddle is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alan Waddle (born 1954), English footballer * Bryan Waddle (21st century), New Zealand broadcaster * Chris Waddle (born 1960), English footballer * Jaylen Waddle Jaylen Waddle (bor ..., a surname See also * Waddling {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatian Wattle
The Croatian interlace or Croatian wattle, known as the or in Croatian, is a type of interlace, most characteristic for its three-ribbon pattern. It is one of the most often used patterns of pre-romanesque Croatian art. It is found on and within churches as well as monasteries built in early medieval Kingdom of Croatia between the 9th and beginning of the 12th century. The ornamental strings were sometimes grouped together with animal and herbal figures. Most representative examples of inscriptions embellished with the interlace include the Baška tablet, baptismal font of Duke Višeslav of Croatia and the Branimir Inscription. Other notable examples are located near Knin, in Ždrapanj and Žavić by the Bribir settlement, Rižinice near Solin and in Split and Zadar. Croatia has a civil and military decoration called the Order of the Croatian Interlace. Pleter Cross During the 8th century, the Pope assigned Croatia with its own idiosyncratic cross based on Croatian interlac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wattle (dermatology)
Wattle or wattles may refer to: Plants *''Acacia sensu lato'', polyphyletic genus of plants commonly known as wattle, especially in Australia and South Africa **''Acacia'', large genus of shrubs and trees, native to Australasia **Black wattle, common name for several species of acacia **Golden wattle, ''Acacia pycnantha'', species of acacia which is the official floral emblem of Australia ** Sunshine wattle, ''Acacia terminalis'', species of acacia which grows in southeastern Australia *''Callicoma'', also known as black wattle, although unrelated to the acacia species Other uses * Steam Tug ''Wattle'', vessel formerly in commercial service in Victoria Harbour, Melbourne, Australia *Wallace Wattles (1860–1911), American New Thought writer, author *Wattle (anatomy), fleshy growth hanging from the head or neck of certain animals. *Wattle (construction), woven strips of wood forming panels used for fencing or for walling **Wattle and daub, a building technique using woven wooden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wattle And Daub
Wattle and daub is a composite building method used for making walls and buildings, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw. Wattle and daub has been used for at least 6,000 years and is still an important construction method in many parts of the world. Many historic buildings include wattle and daub construction. History The wattle and daub technique was used already in the Neolithic period. It was common for houses of Linear pottery and Rössen cultures of middle Europe, but is also found in Western Asia (Çatalhöyük, Shillourokambos) as well as in North America (Mississippian culture) and South America (Brazil). In Africa it is common in the architecture of traditional houses such as those of the Ashanti people. Its usage dates back at least 6,000 years. There are suggestions that construction techniques such as lath and plaster and even cob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wattle (anatomy)
A wattle is a fleshy caruncle hanging from various parts of the head or neck in several groups of birds and mammals. Caruncles in birds include those found on the face, wattles, dewlaps, snoods, and earlobes. Wattles are generally paired structures, but may occur as a single structure when it is sometimes known as a dewlap. Wattles are frequently organs of sexual dimorphism. In some birds, caruncles are erectile tissue and may or may not have a feather covering. Wattles are often such a striking morphological characteristic of animals that it features in their common name. For example, the southern and northern cassowaries are known as the double-wattled and single-wattled cassowary, respectively, and a breed of domestic pig is known as the Red Wattle. Birds Function In birds, wattles are often an ornament for courting potential mates. Large wattles are correlated with high testosterone levels, good nutrition, and the ability to evade predators, which in turn indicates a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia
''Acacia'', commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa and Australasia. The genus name is New Latin, borrowed from the Greek (), a term used by Dioscorides for a preparation extracted from the leaves and fruit pods of ''Vachellia nilotica'', the original type of the genus. In his ''Pinax'' (1623), Gaspard Bauhin mentioned the Greek from Dioscorides as the origin of the Latin name. In the early 2000s it had become evident that the genus as it stood was not monophyletic and that several divergent lineages needed to be placed in separate genera. It turned out that one lineage comprising over 900 species mainly native to Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia was not closely related to the much smaller group of African lineage that contained ''A. nilotica''—the type species. This meant that the Australasian lineage (by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallace Wattles
Wallace Delois Wattles (; 1860 – 7 February 1911) was an American New Thought writer. He remains personally somewhat obscure, but his writing has been widely quoted and remains in print in the New Thought and self-help movements. Wattles' best known work is a 1910 book called ''The Science of Getting Rich'' in which he explains how to become wealthy. Life and career Wattles' daughter, Florence A. Wattles, described her father's life in a "Letter" that was published shortly after his death in the New Thought magazine ''Nautilus'', edited by Elizabeth Towne. ''The Nautilus'' had previously carried articles by Wattles in almost every issue, and Towne was also his book publisher. Florence Wattles wrote that her father was born in the U.S. in 1860, received little formal education, and found himself excluded from the world of commerce and wealth. According to the 1880 US Federal Census, Wallace lived with his parents on a farm in Nunda Township, McHenry County, Illinois, and worke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steam Tug Wattle
Steam Tug ''Wattle'' is a steam-powered tugboat undergoing refurbishment in Melbourne, Australia. The tugboat was constructed at Cockatoo Island Dockyard during the Great Depression as a project to keep shipyard apprentices employed. The tugboat was built with a riveted steel hull, but welding was used on the bulkheads and fuel bunkers for the first time in an Australian shipyard. The vessel was the first Australian tugboat to be built with an oil-fired compound steam engine. On completion in 1933, the tugboat was offered to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Named ''Wattle'' and operated by a civilian crew, the vessel was primarily used for warship towing and manoeuvring, and was also employed as a target tower. The RAN marked the tugboat for disposal in 1969, and she was purchased by a Sydney-based syndicate, who operated the vessel on tourist cruises around and outside Sydney Harbour. The syndicate kept ''Wattle'' operational until 1977, then sold the ship to a Melbourne-bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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