WATER LOCUST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water locust mean? 

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

1. honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER LOCUST (noun)

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Meaning:

Honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Gleditsia aquatica; swamp locust; water locust

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

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

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

genus Gleditsia; Gleditsia (deciduous trees: honey locusts)