water locust

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

water locust
    n 1: honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United
         States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood [syn:
         {water locust}, {swamp locust}, {Gleditsia aquatica}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Water locust \Wa"ter lo"cust\ (Bot.)
   A thorny leguminous tree ({Gleditschia monosperma}) which
   grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.
   [1913 Webster]

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