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Honey Locust

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Noun

1. gleditsia triacanthos, honey locust

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Honey Locust

see synonyms of honey locust
noun
1. 
a thorny leguminous tree, Gleditsia triacanthos of E North America, that has long pods containing a sweet-tasting pulp
2.  another name for mesquite

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Honey Locust

see synonyms of honey locust
n.
Any of several trees of the genus Gleditsia of the pea family, especially G. triacanthos of eastern North America, which has pinnately compound leaves, large twisted pods with a sweet pulp, and usually thorns on the trunk and branches.

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