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wait-a-bit
[ weyt-uh-bit ]
noun
- any of various plants bearing thorns or prickly appendages, as the grapple plant or the greenbrier.
wait-a-bit
noun
- any of various plants having sharp hooked thorns or similar appendages, esp the greenbrier and the grapple plant
Word History and Origins
Origin of wait-a-bit1
Example Sentences
After a fourteen miles' march the troop reached the Zwart Kop river, and, crossing the ford, encamped among the scattered mimosas and numerous wait-a-bit thorns.
He suspected from this that they were some of the Swahilis of the party, and suspicion became certainty when Bill discovered a tiny strip of white cotton on a spike of a wait-a-bit thorn-bush.
He might indeed scramble over at the expense of torn hands and clothing, though there was the danger of being held fast by the tenacious wait-a-bit thorns of which the obstacle was made.
The British call them "wait-a-bit" thorns, and under either name they are equally dangerous.
The various acacias, hack-thorn, wait-a-bit, hook-and-stick thorn, and the common thorny acacia, with its long, smooth ivory needles, were all putting forth their round, sweet-scented blooms, some greenish, some yellow, against the coming of the rains.
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