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. 1 Any of a number of similar looking trees in the genus ''Gleditsia'' and ''Robinia''. 2 # The honey locust (taxlink Gleditsia triacanthos species noshow=1), a leguminous tree with pods having a sweet, edible pulp. 3 # The black locust, ''Robinia pseudoacacia'', a leguminous tree with toxic pods, but useful for making honey. 4 (context less common English) The (vern: African locust bean) tree ((taxlink Parkia biglobosa species noshow=1)). 5 The carob tree, ''Ceratonia siliqua''.
WordNet
n. any of various hard-wooded trees of the family Leguminosae [syn: locust]
Wikipedia
Locust tree can mean:
- Any of a number of tree species in the genera Gleditsia or Robinia, including:
- Or less commonly, "African locust bean tree" ( Parkia biglobosa), which is also known as néré
- Also not commonly, the carob tree, Ceratonia siliqua, whose pods are called locust beans.
Usage examples of "locust tree".
Like the owl that had been in the barn, like the owl in the black locust tree by her house.
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.
From window to window, they discussed the yellow bird in the locust tree.
The lilacs were in bloom along the drive, and a bird was rebuilding the nest in the locust tree, a little yellow bird.
That one looked to be from a locust tree, near about seven feet long and sharpened to a point at one end, maybe to drive into the ground for a stake.
Tonic, emetic and purgative properties have been ascribed to the root and bark, but the locust tree is rarely, if ever, prescribed as a therapeutic agent.
On the way, the phouka paused long enough to break a green twig off a locust tree in front of the oriental grocery.
A two-pronged remnant of a locust tree rose out of the shallows, and twenty feet past it, a crumbling rock chimney protruded from the orange water.
A locust tree, easily a hundred feet high, pushed branches over the balcony rail, lending this fourth-story aerie the snug mystery of a tree house.
The sickle, blurred by the furious rate of its arc, struck the trunk of a locust tree.
The little man refused to move forward ahead of the prudent schedule he had set himself, and in the end he attached himself to a locust tree and could not be budged, so Pentaquod moved alone to the river.
Stuffed into the carvings of the lower register were bulbs the size of a man's head and seed pods like those of the locust tree.