| black locust 
 
 1. strong stiff wood of a black-locust tree;
 very resistant to decay
 • Hypernyms:
 wood
 • Substance Holonyms:
 yellow locust, Robinia pseudoacacia
 2. large thorny tree of eastern and central United States having pinnately compound leaves and drooping racemes of white flowers;
 widely naturalized in many varieties in temperate regions
 • Syn:
 yellow locust, Robinia pseudoacacia
 • Hypernyms:
 locust tree, locust
 • Member Holonyms:
 Robinia, genus Robinia
 
 
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