1. Tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods; yields very hard durable reddish-brown wood; introduced to temperate Old World
   "The honey locust's thorny branches provided natural protection for nesting birds";
   - Gleditsia triacanthos

Derived forms: honey locusts

Type of: locust, locust tree

Part of: genus Gleditsia, Gleditsia

Encyclopedia: Honey locust