Wattle vs Dewlap - What's the difference?
wattle | dewlap |
A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.
* Tennyson
A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards.
A barbel of a fish.
A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat.
Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person.
Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia , or their bark, used in tanning.
To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.
English terms with homophones
The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing, or a similar feature on any other animal.
* 1901 – 1902 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), (The Hound of the Baskervilles)
The sagging flesh on the human throat of an old person.
As nouns the difference between wattle and dewlap
is that wattle is a construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof while dewlap is the pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing, or a similar feature on any other animal.As a verb wattle
is to construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.wattle
English
Noun
(en noun)- And there he built with wattles from the marsh / A little lonely church in days of yore.
Derived terms
* wattle and daubCoordinate terms
* (skin on head of birds) caruncle, comb, cockscomb, crest, snoodVerb
(wattl)dewlap
English
Noun
(en noun)- Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.