Wiktionary
n. A tree, ''Robinia pseudoacacia'', in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to the southeastern United States, but widely planted and naturalized elsewhere in temperate North America, Europe and Asia; considered an invasive species in some areas.
WordNet
n. strong stiff wood of a black-locust tree; very resistant to decay
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 [syn: yellow locust, Robinia pseudoacacia]
Usage examples of "black locust".
Like the owl that had been in the barn, like the owl in the black locust tree by her house.
One of my first memories is that of the slaves, chained together, being marched to the auction block, which was in a corner of the main square of Lexington, the courthouse square, while in the other corner there was the whipping-post, some ten feet high, black locust wood, made even blacker because of the blood.
Passing through a mix of black locust, crabapple, and sumac, he tracked it to a jumble of rocks.
Every inn and lodge had a quaint and picturesque name-the Black Locust Inn, the Hob Knob, the Blueberry Inn, the Old Cutter Inn-and a hanging wooden sign out front.
And as the lignite mist crept through the web of tram lines and the branches of poplar, black locust, and pollarded horse chestnut trees, along yellow cobblestone streets of such oppressive silence that even the voices of schoolchildren seemed muffled in whispers, it evoked my earliest memories, of visiting my grandparents on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn in the mid-1950s, a world of doilies and florid upholstery and jam and pickle jars.