Meaning

noun a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards

noun framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence

noun any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle

originFrom Middle English wattel, watel, from Old English watel, watul (“hurdle”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, wind, bend”).

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