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golden wattle
noun
- a broad-leaved, Australian acacia, Acacia pycnantha, of the legume family, having short clusters of yellow flowers and yielding tanbark and a useful gum.
- any similar acacia, especially A. longifolia, of Australia and Tasmania.
golden wattle
noun
- an Australian yellow-flowered leguminous plant, Acacia pycnantha, that yields a useful gum and bark
- any of several similar and related plants, esp Acacia longifolia of Australia
Example Sentences
The logo depicted a red tulip and a golden wattle - the national flowers of Australia and Afghanistan - entwined around a cricket ball.
Trump's guests dined on tables dressed in ombre yellow and green cloths — a nod to Australia's national colors, green and gold, drawn from the national flower, the golden wattle.
Both sides of it were lined with thick bushes of golden wattle that shut out all view on either hand.
His horse's feet brushed through the delicate asplenium, the Venus'-hair of Australia; the sarsaparilla still hung in scant purple tufts on the golden wattle, and the scarlet correa lurked among the broken quartz.
The time was early December, and the golden wattle in full bloom.
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