Definition of "wattle" []

• A construction of poles intertwined with twigs, reeds, or branches, used for walls, fences, and roofs. (noun)
• Material used for such construction. (noun)
• A fleshy, wrinkled, often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat, characteristic of certain birds, such as chickens or turkeys, and some lizards. (noun)
• Botany Any of various Australian trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia. (noun)
• To construct from wattle. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Those marks on my face are wrinkles, and that thing under my chin is called a wattle, which is only going to hang lower in years to come."
• "A wattle is the bit of flesh below a rooster’s beak."
• "To make the open frames livable buildings, carpenters and masons in other European countries and the British Isles commonly filled in between the timbers with bricks, plaster, or a plaster-and-stick composite called wattle and daub."