noun
tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods; yields very hard durable reddish-brown wood; introduced to temperate Old World
• Syn: ↑Gleditsia triacanthos
• Hypernyms: ↑locust tree, ↑locust
• Member Holonyms: ↑Gleditsia, ↑genus Gleditsia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.