Wattle or wattles may refer to:
Plants
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Acacia sensu lato'', polyphyletic genus of plants commonly known as wattle, especially in Australia and South Africa
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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 n ...
'', large genus of shrubs and trees, native to Australasia
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Black wattle, common name for several species of acacia
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Golden wattle, ''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'', 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)
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, c ...
, another term for congenital cartilaginous rest of the neck
See also
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Croatian wattle, decorative pattern found in medieval Croatian art
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Waddle (disambiguation)
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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 vegetab ...
, 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, member of the honeyeater family, native to Australia
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Wattle-eye, family of small insect-eating birds native to Africa
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