| NOUN | plant | Gleditsia, genus Gleditsia | deciduous trees |
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| Meaning | deciduous trees: honey locusts. | |
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| Synonym | genus Gleditsia | |
| Member of | Caesalpinioideae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae | Alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae |
| Members | honey locust, Gleditsia triacanthos | tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods |
| water locust, swamp locust, Gleditsia aquatica | honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods | |
| Broader | rosid dicot genus | A genus of dicotyledonous plants |