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LOCUST TREE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does locust tree mean?
• LOCUST TREE (noun)
The noun LOCUST TREE has 1 sense:
1. any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae
Familiarity information: LOCUST TREE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
locust; locust tree
Hypernyms ("locust tree" is a kind of...):
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Meronyms (substance of "locust tree"):
locust (hardwood from any of various locust trees)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "locust tree"):
courbaril; Hymenaea courbaril (West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood)
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)
black locust; Robinia pseudoacacia; yellow locust (large thorny tree of eastern and central United States having pinnately compound leaves and drooping racemes of white flowers; widely naturalized in many varieties in temperate regions)
clammy locust; Robinia viscosa (small rough-barked locust of southeastern United States having racemes of pink flowers and glutinous branches and seeds)
Holonyms ("locust tree" is a member of...):
Fabaceae; family Fabaceae; family Leguminosae; legume family; Leguminosae; pea family (a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae)
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