GLEDITSIA TRIACANTHOS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gleditsia triacanthos mean? 

• GLEDITSIA TRIACANTHOS (noun)
  The noun GLEDITSIA TRIACANTHOS 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: GLEDITSIA TRIACANTHOS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLEDITSIA TRIACANTHOS (noun)

Sense 1

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

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Gleditsia triacanthos; honey locust

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

locust; locust tree (any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae)

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

genus Gleditsia; Gleditsia (deciduous trees: honey locusts)