'Water locust' definitions:
Definition of 'water locust'
(from WordNet)
noun
Honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood [syn: water locust, swamp locust, Gleditsia aquatica]
Definition of 'Water locust'
From: GCIDE
- Water locust \Wa"ter lo"cust\ (Bot.) A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley. [1913 Webster]