HONEY LOCUST
Dictionary entry overview: What does honey locust mean? • HONEY LOCUST (noun)
The noun HONEY LOCUST has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: HONEY LOCUST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HONEY LOCUST (noun)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Gleditsia triacanthos; honey locust
Hypernyms ("honey locust" is a kind of...):
locust; locust tree (any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae)
Holonyms ("honey locust" is a member of...):
genus Gleditsia; Gleditsia (deciduous trees: honey locusts)
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