genus gleditsia

Noun
  1. Deciduous trees: honey locusts (synset 112516014)
    is a type of: rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
    member holonym:
    • gleditsia aquatica, swamp locust, water locust - honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood
    • 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
    belongs to: caesalpinioideae, subfamily caesalpinioideae - alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae
    same as: gleditsia

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