English > locust: 3 senses > noun 3, plant| Meaning | Any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae. |
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| Synonym | locust tree |
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| Member of | Leguminosae, family Leguminosae, Fabaceae, family Fabaceae, legume family, pea family | A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods |
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| Narrower | black locust, yellow locust, Robinia pseudoacacia | large thorny tree of eastern and central United States having pinnately compound leaves and drooping racemes of white flowers |
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| clammy locust, Robinia viscosa | small rough-barked locust of southeastern United States having racemes of pink flowers and glutinous branches and seeds |
| courbaril, Hymenaea courbaril | West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers |
| honey locust, Gleditsia triacanthos | tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods |
| water locust, swamp locust, Gleditsia aquatica | honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods |
| Broader | tree | A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown |
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| Substances | locust | hardwood from any of various locust trees |
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| Spanish | algarrobo |
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| Catalan | garrofer, garrover |
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