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Acacia colletioides

Wait-a-while \Wait"-a-while`\, n.

  1. One of the Australian wattle trees ( Acacia colletioides), so called from the impenetrability of the thicket which it makes.

  2. same as Wait-a-bit.

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Acacia colletioides

Acacia colletioides is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves, with common names wait-a-while, pin bush, and spine bush. It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt, Mid West and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia.

The rigid spreading prickly shrub typically grows to a height of . It blooms from July to September and produces yellow flowers.