BLACK LOCUST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black locust mean? 

• BLACK LOCUST (noun)
  The noun BLACK LOCUST has 2 senses:

1. strong stiff wood of a black-locust tree; very resistant to decay

2. 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

  Familiarity information: BLACK LOCUST used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK LOCUST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strong stiff wood of a black-locust tree; very resistant to decay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("black locust" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("black locust" is a substance of...):

black locust; Robinia pseudoacacia; yellow locust (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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

black locust; Robinia pseudoacacia; yellow locust

Hypernyms ("black locust" is a kind of...):

locust; locust tree (any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae)

Meronyms (substance of "black locust"):

black locust (strong stiff wood of a black-locust tree; very resistant to decay)

Holonyms ("black locust" is a member of...):

genus Robinia; Robinia (deciduous flowering trees and shrubs)