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noun
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)
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Usage: South-Africa
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noun
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)
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noun
Any of certain plants with sharp hooked thorns found in southern and eastern Africa.
Ziziphus mucronata (buffalo thorn, Cape thorn)
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noun
Any of certain plants with sharp hooked thorns found in southern and eastern Africa.
The grapple plant (Uncarina leptocarpa).
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noun
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)
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noun
Certain thorny shrubs and trees of North America:
The common prickly ash (Zanthoxylum americanum).
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noun
Certain thorny shrubs and trees of North America:
The greenbrier (Smilax spp., esp. Smilax rotundifolia).
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noun
Certain thorny shrubs and trees of North America:
Any of various species of hawthorn (Crataegus crus-galli, etc.).
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noun
Certain thorny shrubs and trees of North America:
Mimosa aculeaticarpa (catclaw mimosa, wait-a-minute bush), of southwestern US and northern Mexico.
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noun
Certain thorny shrubs and trees of North America:
Senegalia greggii (catclaw acacia), of southwestern US and northern Mexico.
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History
From Afrikaans wag-'n-bietjie.
From the delay caused by the recurved thorns.
