any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp
Examples of 'honeylocust' in a sentence
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A diversity panel of 40 honeylocust samples covering large parts of the species distribution range was characterized.
Yawen Wu, Ruhua Zhang, Margaret Staton, Scott E. Schlarbaum, Mark V. Coggeshall, JeanneRomero-Severson, John E. Carlson, Haiying Liang, Yi Xu, Daniela I. Drautz-Moses, StephanC. Schuster, Oliver Gailing 2017, 'Development of genic and genomic microsatellites in Gleditsia triacanthos L. (Fabaceae)using Illumina sequencing', Annals of Forest Researchhttp://afrjournal.org/index.php/afr/article/view/819. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)