Wattle

['wɒt(ə)l] or ['wɑtl]

解释:

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

(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.) any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle.

(verb.) interlace to form wattle.

(verb.) build of or with wattle.

手打:利蒂希娅--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.

(n.) A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.

(n.) A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.

(n.) Barbel of a fish.

(n.) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.

(n.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.

(v. t.) To bind with twigs.

(v. t.) To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.

(v. t.) To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.

手打:罗莎琳德

同义词及近义词：

n. Hurdle (of twigs).

手打:瓦内萨

解释:

n. a twig or flexible rod: a hurdle: the fleshy excrescence under the throat of a cock or a turkey: one of various Australian acacias.—v.t. to bind with wattles or twigs: to form by plaiting twigs.—n. Watt′le-bird a wattled honey-eater of Australia.—adj. Watt′led having wattles like a bird.—n. Watt′ling a construction made by interweaving twigs.

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