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GLEDITSIA AQUATICA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Gleditsia aquatica mean?
• GLEDITSIA AQUATICA (noun)
The noun GLEDITSIA AQUATICA has 1 sense:
1. honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood
Familiarity information: GLEDITSIA AQUATICA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Gleditsia aquatica; swamp locust; water locust
Hypernyms ("Gleditsia aquatica" is a kind of...):
locust; locust tree (any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae)
Holonyms ("Gleditsia aquatica" is a member of...):
genus Gleditsia; Gleditsia (deciduous trees: honey locusts)
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