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Locust tree

noun

Any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae. Synonym: locust.

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"Locust tree" Quotes from Famous Books

... they discovered that it wasn't so still as it had seemed. Every bird and insect, each leaf and blossom, was busy, preparing its dinner, or else just growing. A twig rustled as a little garter snake squirmed into the thicket. A little gray nuthatch looked for its lunch on a locust tree, crawling over the trunk head-downwards, while, on a branch overhead, a crested flycatcher perched watching, watching, then all-of-a-sudden swooped down and pounced on a fly, swallowed him, flew back to ...

— Half-Past Seven Stories • Robert Gordon Anderson

... who will sing of the hawthorn in spring, Or the late-leaved linden in summer; There's a word may be for the locust tree, That delicate, strange new-comer; But the maple it glows with the tint of the rose When pale are the spring-time regions, And its towers of flame from afar proclaim The advance ...

— The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book • Various

Words linked to "Locust tree" : pea family, Fabaceae, tree, legume family, family Fabaceae, Leguminosae, Robinia pseudoacacia, Robinia viscosa, honey locust, swamp locust, water locust, Hymenaea courbaril, Gleditsia triacanthos, black locust, family Leguminosae, courbaril, yellow locust, clammy locust, Gleditsia aquatica