HONEY LOCUST

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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

Synonyms:

Gleditsia triacanthos; honey locust

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("honey locust" is a kind of...):

locust; locust tree (any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae)

Holonyms ("honey locust" is a member of...):

genus Gleditsia; Gleditsia (deciduous trees: honey locusts)

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