Definition of Gleditsia aquatica

1. Noun. Honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood.

Exact synonyms: Swamp Locust, Water Locust
Generic synonyms: Locust, Locust Tree
Group relationships: Genus Gleditsia, Gleditsia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gleditsia Aquatica

Glaswegians
Glauber's salt
Glaucium
Glaucium flavum
Glaucomys
Glaucomys sabrinus
Glaucomys volans
Glaux
Glaux maritima
Glc
Gleason's score
Gleason's tumour grade
Glechoma
Glechoma hederaceae
Gleditsia
Gleditsia aquatica (current term)
Gleditsia triacanthos
Gleek
Gleeks
Gleichenia
Gleichenia flabellata
Gleicheniaceae
Gleichschaltung
Glen
Glen Gebhard
Glenda
Glenda Jackson
Glendale
Glendower
Glengarry

Literary usage of Gleditsia aquatica

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Gleditsia aquatica Marsh. Arb. Am. 54. 1785. Gleditsia monosperma Walt. Fl. Car. 254. 1788. A tree, with maximum height of about 60°, and trunk diameter of ..."

2. Check List of the Forest Trees of the United States: Their Names and Ranges by George Bishop Sudworth (1898)
"... Locust Gleditsia aquatica Marsh. Water Locust. GLEDITSIA MONOSPERMA Walt. RANGE.—Coast region, from South Carolina to Florida (Matanzas Inlet and Tampa ..."

3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1918)
"One, Gleditsia, texana Sargent, is confined to the Brazos River valley in Texas; a second, the water locust Gleditsia aquatica Marsh, is found in our ..."

4. Arbustrum Americanum: The American Grove, Or, An Alphabetical Catalogue of by Humphry Marshall (1785)
"GLEDITSIA aquatica. Water Acacia. This fort grows naturally in Carolina, and hath much the appearance of the ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1898)
"Britton. M. angustata (T. & Gr . ) Britton. (Leguminosa in part.) Cassia Tora L., 1753. Gleditsia aquatica Marsh, 1785. Gymnocladus dioica (L.) Koch. ..."

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