- Gleditsia
- noundeciduous trees: honey locusts• Syn: ↑genus Gleditsia• Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus• Member Holonyms: ↑Caesalpinioideae, ↑subfamily Caesalpinioideae• Member Meronyms: ↑water locust, ↑swamp locust, ↑Gleditsia aquatica, ↑honey locust, ↑Gleditsia triacanthos
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\\-itsēə\ nounUsage: capitalized: a genus of thorny trees (family Leguminosae) with pinnate or bipinnate leaves and inconspicuous greenish spikes of flowers succeeded by large flat pods — see honey locust
Useful english dictionary. 2012.