1. A fleshy wrinkled and often brightly coloured fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards
   "The turkey's wattle turned bright red during mating display";
   - lappet
    
2. Framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence
   "The settlers built a wattle fence around their vegetable garden"
    
3. Any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle
   "The wattle's golden blooms are a symbol of Australia"

1. (construction) build of or with wattle
   "They wattled the walls of the primitive hut"
    
2. Interlace to form wattle
   "They wattled branches to create a fence"

Derived forms: wattles, wattled, wattling

Type of: acacia, build, caruncle, caruncula, construct, enlace, entwine, frame, framework, interlace, intertwine, interwind, intwine [archaic], lace, make, twine

Encyclopedia: Wattle