Turkey vs. Wattle — What's the Difference?

Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye [ˈtyɾcije]), officially the Republic of Turkey, is a country bridging Europe and Asia. It shares borders with Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest; the Black Sea to the north; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea to the west.

A material for making fences, walls, etc., consisting of rods or stakes interlaced with twigs or branches.

A country comprising the whole of the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia, with a small portion in south-eastern Europe to the west of Istanbul; population 78,700,000 (estimated 2015); official language, Turkish; capital, Ankara.

An acacia.

A large North American bird (Meleagris gallopavo) that has brownish plumage and a bare wattled head and neck and is widely domesticated for food.

A coloured fleshy lobe hanging from the head or neck of the turkey and some other birds.

The flesh of this bird, used as food.

Make, enclose, or fill up with wattle.

A related bird (Meleagris ocellata syn. Agriocharis ocellata) of Mexico and Central America, brilliantly colored and having eyelike spots on its tail.

A construction of poles intertwined with twigs, reeds, or branches, used for walls, fences, and roofs.

A person considered inept or undesirable.

Material used for such construction.

A failure, especially a failed theatrical production or movie.

(Botany) Any of various Australian trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.

(Sports) Three consecutive strikes in bowling.

A fleshy, wrinkled, often brightly colored fold of skin usually hanging from the neck or throat, characteristic of certain birds, reptiles, and mammals.

The guinea fowl (family Numididae).

To construct from wattle.

(countable) A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck, especially the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo, now domesticated).

To weave into wattle.

(uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.

A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.

(countable) With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the brush turkey or bush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)).

A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.

An act of throwing three strikes in a row.

A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards.

A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.

A barbel of a fish.

A pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle; also, a large travel bag, a suitcase.

A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat.

A failure.

Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person.

A foolish or inept person.

Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia, or their bark, used in tanning.

A country in the southeast of Europe and southwest of Asia.

This plant seen as the national emblem of Australia.

Any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus Meleagris, especially the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), and the domestic turkey, which was probably derived from the Mexican wild turkey, but had been domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of America.

(transitive) To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.

Large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food

(transitive) To bind with wattles or twigs.

A Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923

A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.

A person who does something thoughtless or annoying;

A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.

Flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted

A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.

An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual;

The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; - called also wattle bark.

Wild turkey of Central America and northern South America

Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used for walls, fences, and the like.

In Australasia, any tree of the genus Acacia; - so called from the wattles, or hurdles, which the early settlers made of the long, pliable branches or of the split stems of the slender species. The bark of such trees is also called wattle. See also Savanna wattle, under Savanna.

To bind with twigs.

To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.

To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.

A fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards

Framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence

Build of or with wattle

Interlace to form wattle