water locust
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- honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy woodSynonyms: swamp locustGleditsia aquaticaType of locust tree, locustMember of Gleditsia, genus Gleditsia
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Wa′ter lo′cust.
Botany A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54