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  • (Bot.) A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.

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  • noun Gleditsia aquatica, a tree found in swamps.

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  • noun honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood

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