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Locust tree   /lˈoʊkəst tri/   Listen
Locust tree

noun
1.
Any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae.  Synonym: locust.






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"Locust tree" Quotes from Famous Books



... watched the lights and shadows woven throughout the greenery, just outside her window, or listened to the weird measure of the rain when the wind surged like a sea through the foliage, or held her breath for joy when a flying bird pulsed vividly across the sky, or counted the milk-white flowers of the locust tree, as they strewed the ground with blossoms, or noted the exact moment when the morning-glories softly clasped their purple petals together, as though unable to contain a greater fulness of joy than was brought by the summer ...
— An Algonquin Maiden - A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada • G. Mercer Adam



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



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