Turkey vs. Wattle

Turkeynoun

Either of two species of bird in the genus Meleagris with fan-shaped tails and wattled necks.

Turkeynoun

(uncountable) The meat or flesh of this bird eaten as food

Turkeynoun

(colloquial) A failure.

Turkeynoun

A foolish or inept person.

Turkeynoun

(bowling) An act of throwing three strikes in a row.

Turkeynoun

(obsolete) The guinea fowl (Numida meleagris).

Turkeynoun

A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.

Turkeynoun

A large travel bag; a suitcase; a pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle.

Turkey

A country in the southeast of Europe and southwest of Asia.

Turkeynoun

Any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus Meleagris, especially the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), and the domestic turkey, which was probably derived from the Mexican wild turkey, but had been domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of America.

Turkeynoun

large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food

Turkeynoun

a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923

Turkeynoun

a person who does something thoughtless or annoying;

Turkeynoun

flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted

Turkeynoun

an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual;

Turkeynoun

wild turkey of Central America and northern South America

Turkeynoun

a country comprising the whole of the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia, with a small portion in south-eastern Europe to the west of Istanbul; population 78,700,000 (estimated 2015); official language, Turkish; capital, Ankara.

Turkey

Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye [ˈtyɾcije]), officially the Republic of Turkey, is a country bridging Europe and Asia. It shares borders with Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest; the Black Sea to the north; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea to the west.

Wattlenoun

A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.

Wattlenoun

A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.

Wattlenoun

A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards.

Wattlenoun

A barbel of a fish.

Wattlenoun

A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat.

Wattlenoun

Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person.

Wattlenoun

Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia, or their bark, used in tanning.

Wattleverb

(transitive) To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.

Wattleverb

(transitive) To bind with wattles or twigs.

Wattlenoun

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

Wattlenoun

A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.

Wattlenoun

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

Wattlenoun

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

Wattlenoun

Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used for walls, fences, and the like.

Wattlenoun

In Australasia, any tree of the genus Acacia; - so called from the wattles, or hurdles, which the early settlers made of the long, pliable branches or of the split stems of the slender species. The bark of such trees is also called wattle. See also Savanna wattle, under Savanna.

Wattleverb

To bind with twigs.

Wattleverb

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

Wattleverb

To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.

Wattlenoun

a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards

Wattlenoun

framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence

Wattleverb

build of or with wattle

Wattleverb

interlace to form wattle

Wattlenoun

a material for making fences, walls, etc., consisting of rods or stakes interlaced with twigs or branches.

Wattlenoun

a wicker hurdle.

Wattlenoun

an acacia.

Wattlenoun

a coloured fleshy lobe hanging from the head or neck of the turkey and some other birds.

Wattleverb

make, enclose, or fill up with wattle.