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ˈlocust-tree
Also 7–8 locus tree.
[In sense 1 clearly f. locust n. In the other applications the identity of the word is somewhat doubtful, but the New World trees so called may possibly have received their name from the resemblance of their fruit either to the carob-pod (locust n. 4) or the insect itself.]
1. The carob-tree, Ceratonia Siliqua.
1623Jobson Golden Trade 132 They haue likewise great store of Locust trees, which growing in clusters of long cods together in the beginning of May, growes to his ripenes, which the people will feede vpon. 1775Ann. Reg. ii. 92 A tree growing in Spain called..carrobe or locust-tree..the fruit exactly resembles kidney-beans.
2. A well-known North American tree, Robinia Pseudacacia, having thorny branches and dense clusters of white heavily-scented flowers; = acacia1 2. It is used extensively for ornament and as a timber-tree, the wood being very hard and durable.
1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. 1550 Arbor siliquosa Virginensis spinosa, Locus nostratibus dicta. The Virginian Locus tree. 1676S. Sewall Diary 28 Sept. (1878) I. 22 Brought my Brother John going so far as the little Locust tree. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 80/1 The [leaves of the] Locus tree, are oval leaves set on the stalk by short foot-stalks. 1775A. Burnaby Trav. 69 The pseudo-acacia, or locust-tree. 1822W. Irving Braceb. Hall (1849) 389 The house stood..in the centre of a large field, with an avenue of old locust trees leading up to it. 1892Stevenson Across the Plains 8 Locust-trees..gave it a foreign grace and interest.
3. The courbaril of Guiana and the West Indies. Also, the West Indian Byrsonima cinerea and B. coriacea (Treas. Bot. 1866).
1629Plantation St. Christopher in J. Smith's Works (Arb.) 905 Sugar Canes..also Masticke, and Locus Trees. 1693S. Dale Pharmacologia 506 Gummi Animi..Locus vulgò. The Locust-Tree. In Nova Hispania & Brasilia oritur. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 221 The Locus Tree. It is a spreading shady tree, and found in many parts of Liguanea. 1796Stedman Surinam II. xxiii. 165 We saw some very fine locust-trees, being eighty or a hundred feet high, and prodigiously thick... The timber is of a beautiful cinnamon-colour,..its seeds, like beans,..enclosed in a broad light brown pod. 1838T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 542 This resin [animé] is obtained from the hymenæa courbaril, or locust tree. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 165 The Locust-tree (Hymenæa) of tropical South America..affording a very tough and close-grained wood.
4. N.Z. = kowhai.
1872A. Domett Ranolf vi. ii. 111 Feathery locust-trees o'erarched a little plot. 1898Morris Austral Eng., Kowhai. Maori name given to (1) Locust-tree, Yellow Kowhai Sophora tetraptera.
5. African locust-tree, Parkia africana (Treas. Bot. Suppl. 1874). bastard locust-tree of the West Indies, Clethra tinifolia. honey locust-tree, a North American ornamental tree, Gleditschia triacanthos. swamp or water locust-tree, G. monosperma (Treas. Bot. 1866).
1725Sloane Jamaica II. 86 Bastard Locust-tree. The berries are ripe in August. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 317 Locust-tree, Honey, Gleditsia. |