wait-a-bit

名词 n.
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名词 n.
  1. Any of certain plants with sharp hooked thorns found in southern and eastern Africa.; One of numerous acacias and mimosas and relatives.; Senegalia brevispica (wait-a-bit acacia) South-Africa
  2. Certain thorny shrubs and trees of North America:; The common prickly ash (Zanthoxylum americanum).
  3. Any of certain plants with sharp hooked thorns found in southern and eastern Africa.; One of numerous acacias and mimosas and relatives.; Biancaea decapetala (syn. Caesalpinia decapetala, Mauritius thorn, Mysore thorn) South-Africa
  4. Certain thorny shrubs and trees of North America:; The greenbrier (Smilax spp., esp. Smilax rotundifolia).
  5. Any of certain plants with sharp hooked thorns found in southern and eastern Africa.; Ziziphus mucronata (buffalo thorn, Cape thorn)
  6. Certain thorny shrubs and trees of North America:; Any of various species of hawthorn (Crataegus crus-galli, etc.).
  7. Any of certain plants with sharp hooked thorns found in southern and eastern Africa.; The grapple plant (Uncarina leptocarpa).
  8. Certain thorny shrubs and trees of North America:; Mimosa aculeaticarpa (catclaw mimosa, wait-a-minute bush), of southwestern US and northern Mexico.
  9. Any of certain plants with sharp hooked thorns found in southern and eastern Africa.; Asparagus spp. of South Africa (Asparagus capensis, Asparagus suaveolens, Asparagus burchellii, Asparagus mariae, Asparagus flavicaulis, Asparagus spinescens)
  10. Certain thorny shrubs and trees of North America:; Senegalia greggii (catclaw acacia), of southwestern US and northern Mexico.

词形变化

wait-a-bits plural wait-a-bits plural

词汇关系

相关词
wait-a-minute wait-a-while

词源

词源 1
From Afrikaans wag-'n-bietjie.
词源 2
From the delay caused by the recurved thorns.
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