honey locust

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Any of several trees of the genus Gleditsia, especially G. triacanthos, having deciduous, pinnately compound leaves, small flowers in racemes, and large, often twisted, indehiscent pods.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An ornamental North American tree, Gleditschia triacanthos. The water honey-locust is G. monosperma, also an American tree, growing from Illinois southward. The name is sometimes given to the mesquit, Prosopis juliflora, a native of the southwestern United States.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Bot.) a North American tree (Gleditschia triacanthos), armed with thorns, and having long pods with a sweet pulp between the seeds.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. tall 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