(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, Syn. Gleditsia triacanthos
(n) honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood, Syn. Gleditsia aquatica, swamp locust