gleditsia : Idioms & Phrases
genus gleditsia
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noun deciduous trees: honey locusts
Gleditsia.
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gleditsia aquatica
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noun honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood
swamp locust; water locust.
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gleditsia triacanthos
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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
honey locust.