locust tree
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1. any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | tree, |
| definition | : | a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | courbaril, hymenaea courbaril, |
| definition | : | West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | gleditsia triacanthos, honey locust, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | black locust, robinia pseudoacacia, yellow locust, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | clammy locust, robinia viscosa, |
| definition | : | small rough-barked locust of southeastern United States having racemes of pink flowers and glutinous branches and seeds (noun.plant) |
| substance holonym | : | locust, |
| definition | : | hardwood from any of various locust trees (noun.plant) |
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