wattle

1. 1.

   build of or with wattle

   Broaderconstruct

   construction

2. 2.

   interlace to form wattle

   Broaderintertwine

Other forms of wattle

plural

wattles·

past tense

wattled·

present participle

wattling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wattle

What does wattle mean?

wattle means "a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wattle?

wattle has 2 syllables: wat-tle. The stress falls on "wat". In IPA it is /ˈwɑtəl/.

What is another word for wattle?

Close synonyms include lappet. 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 wattle a common word?

wattle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.