honey locust (n)
Gleditsia triacanthos (n)

n12495895

type n
lex_filenum 20
def tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods
def yields very hard durable reddish-brown wood
def introduced to temperate Old World
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Hypernym locust tree, locust
Member holonym Gleditsia, genus Gleditsia
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Hyponym locust tree, locust
Member meronym Gleditsia, genus Gleditsia

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