stinking wattle

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   scrubby Australian acacia having extremely foul-smelling blossoms

   SynonymsgidgeeAcacia cambegei

   Broaderwattle

   Part ofgenus Acacia

Questions about stinking wattle

What does stinking wattle mean?

stinking wattle means "scrubby Australian acacia having extremely foul-smelling blossoms".

What is another word for stinking wattle?

Close synonyms include gidgee, Acacia cambegei. 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 stinking wattle a common word?

stinking 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.