Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a wattle or wattles, as a bird; specifically, in heraldry, noting a cock's head, and the like, when the wattles are of a different tincture from the rest: generally used in the expression wattled and combed. Also jewlapped, jelloped, and barbed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the chin or throat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having a
wattle - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
wattle .
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Examples
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It had turned a blind eye to the pristine state of the area and to its biodiversity, including rare birds such as wattled cranes and other red data species, the groups said.
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I guess the feathered, red wattled bird is out of the proverbial bag.
Wajahat Ali: The Stealth Halal Jihadist Turkey: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Muslim Trojan Horse Wajahat Ali 2011
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I guess the feathered, red wattled bird is out of the proverbial bag.
Wajahat Ali: The Stealth Halal Jihadist Turkey: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Muslim Trojan Horse Wajahat Ali 2011
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Unloved as food, it is also picked on for its looks: humans don't have wattled throats – they have turkey necks.
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I guess the feathered, red wattled bird is out of the proverbial bag.
Wajahat Ali: The Stealth Halal Jihadist Turkey: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Muslim Trojan Horse Wajahat Ali 2011
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I guess the feathered, red wattled bird is out of the proverbial bag.
Wajahat Ali: The Stealth Halal Jihadist Turkey: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Muslim Trojan Horse Wajahat Ali 2011
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Craning its thick, wattled neck back and forth as if seeking the origin of its summoning.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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I guess the feathered, red wattled bird is out of the proverbial bag.
Wajahat Ali: The Stealth Halal Jihadist Turkey: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Muslim Trojan Horse Wajahat Ali 2011
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Craning its thick, wattled neck back and forth as if seeking the origin of its summoning.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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I guess the feathered, red wattled bird is out of the proverbial bag.
Wajahat Ali: The Stealth Halal Jihadist Turkey: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Muslim Trojan Horse Wajahat Ali 2011
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