silver wattle
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]silver wattle (plural silver wattles)
- (Australia) Any of various shrubs of the genus Acacia having silvery foliage, especially Acacia dealbata of southeastern Australia and Tasmania. [from 19th c.]
- 2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 160:
- Dogs were heard howling and there was a rustle in the silver wattle.
- 2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 160: