"fleshy appendage below the neck of certain birds," 1510s (extended jocularly to human beings, 1560s), of uncertain origin and of doubtful relationship to wattle (n.1). Related: Wattled.
wattle (n.1)
"stakes interlaced with twigs and forming the framework of the wall of a building," Old English watol "hurdle," in plural "twigs, thatching, tiles," related to weeel "bandage," from Proto-Germanic *wadlaz, from PIE *au- (3) "to weave" (see weeds). Surviving in wattle-and-daub "building material for huts, etc." (1808).
雙語例句
1. walls made of wattle and daub
泥笆墻
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2. The physicochemical properties and rheology of gum black wattle was studied.
研究了黑荊膠的物理、化學(xué)性質(zhì)及流變性質(zhì).
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3. There is a house with wattle fence in the picture.
圖畫里有一間帶籬笆的小房子.
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4. Wattle is purpose - built to withstand the country's droughts, winds and bush fires.
人們種植金合歡,為的是用它來抵擋干旱 、 風(fēng)沙和叢林大火.
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5. Fig .1、2 The ultrastructure of leaf cells of black wattle at 20℃.