HyperDic: honey_locust

English > 1 sense of the expression honey locust:
NOUNplanthoney locust, Gleditsia triacanthostall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods
English > honey locust: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningtall 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.
SynonymGleditsia triacanthos
Member ofGleditsia, genus Gleditsiadeciduous trees
Broaderlocust tree, locustAny of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae
CatalanGleditsia triacanthos

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