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Normally, turkeys top out around 20 pounds, with fleshy wattles that hang down their necks and another protuberance called a snood hanging over the beak.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

Jones said the hen — which has brown feathers and a red comb and wattles — is believed to be a Rhode Island red.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2022

Crews were also placing straw tubing known as wattles along stream edges to prevent sediment from washing into the waterway amid rain or snowfall.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2021

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2015

Someone’s rescued hen fluttered up to the bow of our boat and strutted placidly along the gunwale, its delicate wattles shaking as it plucked up ants.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver