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STINKING WATTLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stinking wattle mean?
• STINKING WATTLE (noun)
The noun STINKING WATTLE has 1 sense:
1. scrubby Australian acacia having extremely foul-smelling blossoms
Familiarity information: STINKING WATTLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Scrubby Australian acacia having extremely foul-smelling blossoms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Acacia cambegei; gidgee; stinking wattle
Hypernyms ("stinking wattle" is a kind of...):
wattle (any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle)
Holonyms ("stinking wattle" is a member of...):
genus Acacia (large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa)
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