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Definition of Gleditsia triacanthos
1. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Locust, Locust Tree
Group relationships: Genus Gleditsia, Gleditsia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gleditsia Triacanthos
Literary usage of Gleditsia triacanthos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"gleditsia triacanthos Linn. Nomenclature. (Sudworth.) Honey Locust (local and
com- Honey or ... gleditsia triacanthos."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"gleditsia triacanthos L. Sp. PI. 1056. 1753. A large tree, with rough bark,
maximum height about 140° and trunk diameter 5*°, usually armed with. numerous ..."
3. Forest Flora of Japan: Notes on the Forest Flora of Japan by Charles Sprague Sargent (1894)
"The male flowers (the female inflorescence I have not seen) are very similar to
those of gleditsia triacanthos, although they are rather larger and the ..."
4. Travels West of the Alleghanies: Made in 1793-96 by André Michaux, in 1802 by André Michaux, François André Michaux, Thaddeus Mason Harris (1904)
"Nyssa montana rather rare; gleditsia triacanthos; Robinia pseudoacacia (by the
French fevier). The gleditsia triacanthos is called fevier ..."
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