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Honey locust   /hˈəni lˈoʊkəst/   Listen
Honey locust

noun
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.  Synonym: Gleditsia triacanthos.






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"Honey locust" Quotes from Famous Books



... sidewise despite anything the operator could do, although, under the same conditions in ordinary straight flight, it could have been righted in an instant. In one flight, in 1905, while circling around a honey locust tree at a height of about 50 feet, the machine suddenly began to turn up on one wing, and took a course toward the tree. The operator, not relishing the idea of landing in a thorn-tree, attempted to reach the ground. The left wing, however, ...
— The Early History of the Airplane • Orville Wright



Words linked to "Honey locust" :   Gleditsia triacanthos, genus Gleditsia, locust tree, locust, Gleditsia



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