Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
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;
[syn: honey locust, Gleditsia triacanthos]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Gleditsia triacanthos
n 1: 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 [syn: honey
locust, Gleditsia triacanthos]