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silver wattle
noun
- a tree, Acacia dealbata, of the legume family, native to Australia and Tasmania, having feathery, silver-gray foliage and fragrant yellow flowers.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of silver wattle1
First recorded in 1870–75
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Example Sentences
Tasmania is again a major character, a land of “writhing peppermint gums and silver wattle that waved and danced in the heat,” that is “hot and hard in summer, and hard, simply hard, in winter.”
From The New Yorker
The silver wattle of nursery catalogues is named for its abundant, silvery-pubescent, feathery foliage.
From Project Gutenberg
The silver wattle grows freely in shifting sands and by its means waste lands, e.g. the Cape Flats, have been reclaimed.
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Acacia dealbata.—The silver wattle tree of Australia.
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Save for the orange grove at the left and the ash-colored leaves of the silver wattle above them, Weldon could almost have fancied himself in England.
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