| locust tree | <botany> A large North American tree of the genus Robinia (R. Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In England it is called acacia. The name is also applied to other trees of different genera, especially to those of the genus Hymenaea, of which H. Courbaril is a lofty, spreading tree of South America; also to the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua), a tree growing in the Mediterranean region. <botany> Honey locust tree, a small swamp tree (Gleditschia monosperma), of the Southern United States. Origin: Etymol. Uncertain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| water locust | <botany> A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| locust | 1. <zoology> Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididae, allied to the grasshoppers; especially, (Edipoda, or Pachytylus, migratoria, and Acridium perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called grasshoppers. See Grasshopper. These insects are at times so numerous in Africa and the south of Asia as to devour every green thing; and when they migrate, they fly in an immense cloud. In the United States the harvest flies are improperly called locusts. See Cicada. Locust beetle, an African bird; the beefeater. 2. [Etymol. Uncertain. <botany> The locust tree. See Locust Tree (definition, note, and phrases). <botany> Locust bean, a commercial name for the sweet pod of the carob tree. Origin: L. Locusta locust, grasshopper. Cf. Lobster. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| locust gum | <botany> The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread. The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico. Origin: Sp. Algarroba, fr. Ar. Al-kharrbah. Cf. Carob. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| amber tree | A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odour. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bay tree | A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| beam tree | <botany> A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple. Origin: AS. Beam a tree. See: Beam. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| beech tree | The beech. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bo tree | <botany> The peepul tree; especially, the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha. "The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists (Ficus religiosa), which is planted close to every temple, and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of the god himself. . . . It differs from the banyan (Ficus Indica) by sending down no roots from its branches." (Tennent) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bully tree | <botany> The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceae, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| cabbage tree | The bark of Andira inermis, a leguminous tree of tropical America, used as an emetic, purgative, and anthelmintic. Synonym: cabbage tree, worm bark. Origin: West Indian native name (05 Mar 2000) |
| galapee tree | <botany> The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mahwa tree | <botany> An East Indian sapotaceous tree (Bassia latifolia, and also B. Butyracea), whose timber is used for wagon wheels, and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gatten tree | <botany> A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europaeus). Origin: Cf. Prov. E. Gatter bush. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| peepul tree | <botany> A sacred tree (Ficus religiosa) of the Buddhists, a kind of fig tree which attains great size and venerable age. See Bo tree. Alternative forms: pippul tree, and pipal tree. Origin: Hind. Pipal, Skr. Pippala. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gourd tree | <botany> A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |