WATER LOCUST - Definition

Pronunciation:		'wotur 'lowkust
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WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood

	Synonyms:	Gleditsia aquatica, swamp locust

	See Also:	genus Gleditsia, Gleditsia, locust, locust tree

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Wa"ter lo"cust\ (Bot.) A thorny leguminous tree ({Gleditschia monosperma}) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.