Usually means: Thorny plant; delays travelers' progress.
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  1. wait-a-bit: Merriam-Webster
  2. wait-a-bit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wait-a-bit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wait-a-bit, wait-a-bit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wait-a-bit: Wordnik
  6. wait-a-bit: Wiktionary
  7. wait-a-bit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. wait-a-bit: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. wait-a-bit: Dictionary.com
  10. wait-a-bit: FreeDictionary.org
  11. wait-a-bit: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (wait-a-bit)

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

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