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gleditschia Bot.|glɛˈdɪtʃ(ɪ)ə|
Also gleditsia, gleditzia.
[mod.L. (C. Linnæus Genera Plantarum (ed. 2, 1742) 480), f. the name of J. G. Gleditsch (1714–1786), a German botanist + -ia1.]
An ornamental tree of the genus so called, belonging to the family Leguminosæ, and including the honey locust tree of North America.
1770R. Weston Univ. Botanist I. 116 Gleditsia of Java. 1838J. C. Loudon Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum II. 650 The three-thorned gleditschia, or honey locust, in favourable situations in its native country, attains the height of 70 ft. or 80 ft. 1855A. M. Murray Let. 7 May (1856) II. xxv. 157 A stream..bordered by..gleditzias, cedars, sweet and black gum-trees. 1905C. S. Sargent Man. Trees N. Amer. 556 Gleditsia is confined to eastern North America..south-western Asia, China, Japan, and west tropical Africa. 1914W. J. Bean Trees & Shrubs Hardy in Brit. Isles I. 594 No Gleditschia has any beauty of blossom, the flowers being small, green, and borne in racemes a few inches long. 1957M. Hadfield Brit. Trees 360 Locust is a name given in North America both to trees of the genus Robinia and to the rather similar Gleditsia. |