LOCUST TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does locust tree mean? 

• LOCUST TREE (noun)
  The noun LOCUST TREE has 1 sense:

1. any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae

  Familiarity information: LOCUST TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOCUST TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

locust; locust tree

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

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (substance of "locust tree"):

locust (hardwood from any of various locust trees)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "locust tree"):

courbaril; Hymenaea courbaril (West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood)

Gleditsia aquatica; swamp locust; water locust (honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood)

Gleditsia triacanthos; honey locust (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)

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)

clammy locust; Robinia viscosa (small rough-barked locust of southeastern United States having racemes of pink flowers and glutinous branches and seeds)

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

Fabaceae; family Fabaceae; family Leguminosae; legume family; Leguminosae; pea family (a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae)