The Collaborative International Dictionary
Locust tree \Lo"cust tree`\n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A large North American tree of the genus Robinia ( Robinia Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In England it is called acacia.
Note: The name is also applied to other trees of different genera, especially to those of the genus Hymen[ae]a, of which Hymen[ae]a Courbaril is a lofty, spreading tree of South America; also to the carob tree ( Ceratonia siliqua), a tree growing in the Mediterranean region.
Honey locust tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Gleditschia ) Gleditschia triacanthus), having pinnate leaves and strong branching thorns; -- so called from a sweet pulp found between the seeds in the pods. Called also simply honey locust.
Water locust tree (Bot.), a small swamp tree ( Gleditschia monosperma), of the Southern United States.
Wiktionary
n. A North American deciduous tree ((taxlink Gleditsia triacanthos species noshow=1)) having fragrant flowers, hard red wood, and conspicuous thorns.
WordNet
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 [syn: Gleditsia triacanthos]
Wikipedia
The honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) also known as the thorny locust, is a deciduous tree in the Fabaceae family, native to central North America where it is mostly found in the moist soil of river valleys ranging from southeastern South Dakota to New Orleans and central Texas, and as far east as eastern Massachusetts. The species has become a significant invasive weed in other regions of the world.
Usage examples of "honey locust".
They marked their bodies with red and black paint, and the black was charcoal from the dance fire that had been made of the wood of a honey locust tree that had been struck by lightning but not killed.
Finest of all caviars is roe of the Yangtze sturgeon simmered in a decoction of the seeds of the honey locust!
They were at the rear of the brownstone, hidden from the cops on perimeter patrol by the wisteria and honey locust branches.
He crouched there for a heartbeat, balanced against the night, weighing his next move, then he flung himself through the air a body length and more and into the arms of a honey locust.
Each plate had a pile of soaked and stewed honey locust beansmixed with hickory nuts.