GLEDITSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gleditsia mean? 

• GLEDITSIA (noun)
  The noun GLEDITSIA has 1 sense:

1. deciduous trees: honey locusts

  Familiarity information: GLEDITSIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLEDITSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deciduous trees: honey locusts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Gleditsia; Gleditsia

Hypernyms ("Gleditsia" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Gleditsia"):

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)

Holonyms ("Gleditsia" is a member of...):

Caesalpinioideae; subfamily Caesalpinioideae (alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae)