Honey locust Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun 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
Gleditsia triacanthos.
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(Bot.) , a North American tree (Gleditschia triacanthos ), armed with thorns, and having long pods with a sweet pulp between the seeds.
