| 释义 |
ˈwait-a-while
1. S. Afr. = wait-a-bit a.
1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vii. 239 The Kaffirs throw in the most virtulent ‘wait-a-while’ thorn branches into the pits, to prevent the oxen from trampling.
2. In Australia, any of several plants with prickles or spiny leaves, esp. Acacia colletioides.
1889J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 306 Acacia colletioides..‘Wait-a-while’ (a delicate allusion to the predicament of a traveller desirous of penetrating a belt of it). 1940F. D. Davison Woman at Mill 86 Clumps of prickly wait-a-while gave back the light from millions of small shiny leaves. 1967[see Bathurst burr]. |