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Definition of Silver wattle
1. Noun. Evergreen Australasian tree having white or silvery bark and young leaves and yellow flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silver Wattle
Literary usage of Silver wattle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"47 Cask of malt. TOOTH, E., Bagdad. PATTERSON, —, Liner-pool Street, Hobart Town.
48 Cask of small malt. Cask made of silver wattle, wattle hoops. ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"silver wattle, owing to the whiteness of the trunk, and the silvery or ashy hue
of its ... 23 : "The black and silver Wattle (the Mimosa} are trees used in ..."
3. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"MA juniperina, Willd. Silver W.— A. dealbata, Link. silver wattle, owing to the
whiteness of the trunk, and the silvery or ashy hue of its young foliage. ..."
4. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1868)
"... silver wattle, and Stringy Bark—may be grown in Otago; and the result generally
of these experiments, on the small scale, are most encouraging as ..."
5. Wattles and Wattle-barks: Being Hints on the Conservation and Cultivation of by Joseph Henry Maiden (1906)
"silver wattle " bark may be assumed to contain about 25 per cent. of tannic acid
in the best samples. In Tasmania the destruction of these trees has often ..."
6. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of by Great Exhibition (1851)
"Cask made of silver wattle, with hoops of young wattle. BROWN- & Co., If etc Wharf.
45 White wheat, in a cask of Huron pine, hooped with black wattle ..."
7. The Indian Forester (1879)
"For tanning purposes the silver wattle is generally discarded. The black wattle
is of vigorous and robust habit, and for commercial purposes is ..."
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