honey locust

See also: honeylocust

English

honey locust leaves and thorns

Noun

honey locust (plural honey locusts)

1. A North American deciduous tree (Gleditsia triacanthos) having fragrant flowers, hard red wood, and conspicuous thorns.

Hyponyms

• (Gleditsia triacanthos): thornless honey locust (subspecies, varieties, forms of Gleditsia triacanthos)

Translations

tree

• Cherokee: ᎫᎴᎠᏥ (guleatsi), ᎧᎶqᎤᎡᎩᏗ (kaloQuegidi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 美国皂荚 (měiguó zàojiá)

• Finnish: kolmioka (fi), lännenkolmioka
• French: févier m
• German: Dreidornige Gleditschie f, falscher Christusdorn m, Christdorn (de) m, Amerikanische Gleditschie f
• Italian: spino di Giuda m, triacanto m
• Navajo: naaztání
• Panamint: lokkopü
• Polish: glediczja (pl) f, iglicznia (pl) f
• Portuguese: espinheiro-da-virgínia m

References

• honey locust on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gleditsia triacanthos on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Gleditsia triacanthos on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• honey locust at USDA Plants database