noun
honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood
• Syn: ↑swamp locust, ↑Gleditsia aquatica
• Hypernyms: ↑locust tree, ↑locust
• Member Holonyms: ↑Gleditsia, ↑genus Gleditsia
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noun : a honey locust (Gleditsia aquatica) growing in swamps and bottomlands of the southern U.S., producing short oval pods, and having dark heavy wood that takes a good polish
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a spiny tree, Gleditsia aquatica, of the legume family, native to the southeastern coastal U.S., having pinnate leaves, greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, and long-stalked, thin pods. Also called swamp locust.
[1800-10, Amer.]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.