(n) large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States, Syn. horsebean, Parkinsonia aculeata
(n) East Indian spiny tree having twice-pinnate leaves and yellow flowers followed by flat pods; source of black catechu, Syn. Acacia catechu, Jerusalem thorn