Meanings
nounhoney locust (plural honey locusts)
plural honey locusts
- A North American deciduous tree (Gleditsia triacanthos) having fragrant flowers, hard red wood, and conspicuous thorns.
Synonyms & antonyms
nountall 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
Similar
Gleditsia triacanthos
Broader
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Bulgarian гледи́чия
- гледи́чия (gledíčija)tree
Catalan acàcia de tres punxes
- acàcia de tres punxestree
Chinese Mandarin 美国皂荚
- 美国皂荚 (měiguó zàojiá)tree
Finnish kolmioka, lännenkolmioka
- kolmiokatree
- lännenkolmiokatree
French févier
- féviertree
German Dreidornige Gleditschie, falscher Christusdorn
- Dreidornige Gleditschietree
- falscher Christusdorntree
- Christdorntree
- Amerikanische Gleditschietree
Irish crann lócaiste
- crann lócaistetree
Italian spino di Giuda, triacanto
- spino di Giudatree
- triacantotree
Polish glediczja, iglicznia
- glediczjatree
- igliczniatree
Portuguese espinheiro-da-virgínia
- espinheiro-da-virgíniatree
Cite this entry
APA
honey locust. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/honey%20locust
MLA
“honey locust.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/honey%20locust. Accessed November 5, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “honey locust,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/honey%20locust.
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