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Gleditsia triacanthos

DEFINITIONS OF: Gleditsia triacanthos

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n 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

Synonyms:
honey locust
Type of:
locust, locust tree
any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae
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