water locust Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood
    Gleditsia aquatica; swamp locust.

WordNet


Wa"ter lo"cust
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.

Webster 1913