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Definition of Swamp locust
1. Noun. Honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood.
Generic synonyms: Locust, Locust Tree
Group relationships: Genus Gleditsia, Gleditsia
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Literary usage of Swamp locust
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1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"MORRIS RUN swamp locust. See LOCUST. SWAMP RABBIT, or WATER HARE See HARES.
SWAMP SASSAFRAS. See MAGNOLIA. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... swamp locust (G. aquatica) of Florida, which has enormous spines and reddish
flat oval pods; and the well- known and widely-planted honey locust or ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... or swamp locust. Tree, to 80 ft. with mostly simple spines: Ivs. pinnate, with
l'J-18 ovate-oblong, crenulate Ifts., ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"MORRIS RUN swamp locust. See LOCUST. SWAMP RABBIT, or WATER HARE See HARES.
SWAMP SASSAFRAS. See MAGNOLIA. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... swamp locust (G. aquatica) of Florida, which has enormous spines and reddish
flat oval pods; and the well- known and widely-planted honey locust or ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... or swamp locust. Tree, to 80 ft. with mostly simple spines: Ivs. pinnate, with
l'J-18 ovate-oblong, crenulate Ifts., ..."
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