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Definition of Moss locust
1. Noun. Large shrub or small tree of the eastern United States having bristly stems and large clusters of pink flowers.
Group relationships: Genus Robinia, Robinia
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moss Locust
Literary usage of Moss locust
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"One other species (jf?. hispida), called rose acacia and also moss locust, is
only a straggling shrub from 3 to 5 ft. high, but its flowers are moss locust ..."
2. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1913)
"The clammy locust (R. viscosa) and the moss locust (R. hispida) are to be found
... The flowers of the moss locust are rosy purple, very beautiful indeed, ..."
3. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"... rose acacia, or bristly locust, is really the moss locust, holding among the
acacias the same place as the moss rose does among roses. ..."
4. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"R. viscosa is known occasionally as "red locust" and the bristly young twigs of R.
hispida have gained for it the name of "moss locust. ..."
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