Search Site only in current section. Advanced Search…. Personal tools Log in. Why do we celebrate National Wattle Day? Nglish: Translation of wattle for Spanish Speakers. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!
Log in Sign Up. Save Word. Definition of wattle Entry 1 of 3. Definition of wattle Entry 2 of 3. Definition of wattle Entry 3 of 3. First Known Use of wattle Noun 1 before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a Verb 14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Noun 2 , in the meaning defined above. Wattles were flexible twigs or small branches interwoven to form the framework of buildings.
This style of building was introduced to Australia by early British settlers and species of Acacia were used as wattles. Connect with us. Skip to main content. Australia's national floral emblem is the golden wattle Acacia pycnantha Benth. National Wattle Day. Latest News. 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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