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GLEDITSIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deciduous trees: honey locusts
Synonyms:
genus Gleditsia; Gleditsia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Gleditsia" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Gleditsia"):
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)
Holonyms ("Gleditsia" is a member of...):
Caesalpinioideae; subfamily Caesalpinioideae (alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae)
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