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nounany of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae
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nounhardwood from any of various locust treestype of:
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nounmigratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennaetype of:
Definition that contains locust
- locust hardwood from any of various locust trees
- melanoplus New World migratory locusts and common American grasshoppers
- family locustidae short-horned grasshoppers; true locusts
- robinia viscosa small rough-barked locust of southeastern United States having racemes of pink flowers and glutinous branches and seeds
- gleditsia deciduous trees: honey locusts
- locusta migratoria Old World locust that travels in vast swarms stripping large areas of vegetation
- clammy locust small rough-barked locust of southeastern United States having racemes of pink flowers and glutinous branches and seeds
- migratory locust Old World locust that travels in vast swarms stripping large areas of vegetation
- genus gleditsia deciduous trees: honey locusts
- swamp locust honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood