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silver wattle

noun

  1. 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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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.”

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The silver wattle of nursery catalogues is named for its abundant, silvery-pubescent, feathery foliage.

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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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