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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.

Origin:
1775–85; trans. of Afrik wag-'n-bietjie < D wacht een beetje

grapple plant

–noun
a procumbent, thorny plant, Harpagophytum procumbens, of southern Africa.
Also called wait-a-bit.


Origin:
1815–25
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