| NOUN | plant | Gleditsia triacanthos, honey locust | tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods |
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| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Synonym | honey locust | |
| Member of | Gleditsia, genus Gleditsia | deciduous trees |
| Broader | locust tree, locust | Any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae |
| Catalan | Gleditsia triacanthos | |
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