wait-a-bit

noun13

1. •
   Any of certain plants with sharp hooked thorns found in southern and eastern Africa.
2. •
   (South-Africa) One of numerous acacias and mimosas and relatives.
3. •
   (South-Africa) Senegalia brevispica (wait-a-bit acacia)
4. •
   (South-Africa) Biancaea decapetala (syn. Caesalpinia decapetala, Mauritius thorn, Mysore thorn)
5. •
   Ziziphus mucronata (buffalo thorn, Cape thorn)
6. •
   The grapple plant (Uncarina leptocarpa).
7. •
   Asparagus spp. of South Africa (Asparagus capensis, Asparagus suaveolens, Asparagus burchellii, Asparagus mariae, Asparagus flavicaulis, Asparagus spinescens)
8. •
   Certain thorny shrubs and trees of North America.
9. •
   The common prickly ash (Zanthoxylum americanum).
10. •
    The greenbrier (Smilax spp., esp. Smilax rotundifolia).
11. •
    Any of various species of hawthorn (Crataegus crus-galli, etc.).
12. •
    Mimosa aculeaticarpa (catclaw mimosa, wait-a-minute bush), of southwestern US and northern Mexico.
13. •
    Senegalia greggii (catclaw acacia), of southwestern US and northern Mexico.