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Gleditsia

noun

deciduous trees: honey locusts

• Syn: ↑genus Gleditsia

• Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Caesalpinioideae, ↑subfamily Caesalpinioideae

• Member Meronyms: ↑water locust, ↑swamp locust, ↑Gleditsia aquatica, ↑honey locust, ↑Gleditsia triacanthos

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\\-itsēə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, irregular from Johann G. Gleditsch died 1786 German botanist + New Latin -ia

: a genus of thorny trees (family Leguminosae) with pinnate or bipinnate leaves and inconspicuous greenish spikes of flowers succeeded by large flat pods — see honey locust

Useful english dictionary. 2012.