black wattle

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   Australian tree that yields tanning materials

   SynonymsAcacia auriculiformis

   Broaderwattle

   Part ofgenus Acacia

Questions about black wattle

What does black wattle mean?

black wattle means "Australian tree that yields tanning materials".

What is another word for black wattle?

Close synonyms include Acacia auriculiformis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black wattle a common word?

black wattle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.