sallee wattle

English

Alternative forms

• sally wattle

Noun

sallee wattle (plural sallee wattles)

1. (Australia) Any of various Australian acacias, especially Acacia longifolia of southeastern Australia and Tasmania. [from 19th c.]
   • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 127:

     The gate was five-barred, put together from crooked tree limbs, grey corkwood and sally wattle, iron coachbolts drilled through at the joints […] .