Wattle or wattles may refer to:
Plants
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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 ...
'', polyphyletic genus of plants commonly known as wattle, especially in Australia and South Africa
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Acacia'', large genus of shrubs and trees, native to Australasia
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Black wattle
Black wattle is the common name for a number of species of trees that are native to Australia, as listed below:
*''Acacia aulacocarpa''
*''Acacia auriculiformis'', also known as Darwin Black Wattle or northern black wattle;
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Golden wattle
''Acacia pycnantha'', most commonly known as the golden wattle, is a tree of the family Fabaceae native to southeastern Australia. It grows to a height of and has phyllodes (flattened leaf stalks) instead of true leaves. Sickle-shaped, these ...
, ''Acacia pycnantha'', species of acacia which is the official floral emblem of Australia
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Sunshine wattle, ''Acacia terminalis'', species of acacia which grows in southeastern Australia
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Callicoma
''Callicoma'' is a plant genus that contains just one species, ''Callicoma serratifolia'', a tall shrub or small tree which is native to Australia. ''Callicoma serratifolia'' is commonly known as black wattle. One explanation for the name is th ...
'', also known as black wattle, although unrelated to the acacia species
Other uses
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Steam Tug ''Wattle'', vessel formerly in commercial service in Victoria Harbour, Melbourne, Australia
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Wallace Wattles (1860–1911), American New Thought writer, author
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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 struc ...
, fleshy growth hanging from the head or neck of certain animals.
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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 str ...
, woven strips of wood forming panels used for fencing or for walling
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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 a ...
, a building technique using woven wooden supports packed with clay or mud
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Wattle (dermatology), another term for congenital cartilaginous rest of the neck
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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 with ...
, decorative pattern found in medieval Croatian art
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Waddle (disambiguation)
Waddle may refer to:
* Waddle, Pennsylvania, United States
* Waddle (surname), a surname
See also
* Waddling
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Wattle bagworm, caterpillar native to Southern Africa
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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, ...
, Australian celebration of the first day of spring
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Wattlebird
''Anthochaera'' is a genus of birds in the honeyeater family. The species are endemic to Australia and include the little wattlebird, the red wattlebird, the western wattlebird, and the yellow wattlebird. A molecular phylogenetic study has shown ...
, member of the honeyeater family, native to Australia
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Wattle-eye
Platysteiridae is a family of small, stout passerine birds of the African tropics. The family contains the wattle-eyes, batises and shrike-flycatchers. They were previously classed as a subfamily of the Old World flycatchers, Muscicapidae. Thes ...
, family of small insect-eating birds native to Africa
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