locust treen.

Brit.

/ˈləʊkəst ˌtriː/, U.S.

/ˈloʊkəst ˌtri/

Forms: 1600s–1700s locus tree, 1600s– locust tree.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: locust n., tree n.

Etymology: < locust n. + tree n. (compare locust n. 5, 6).Trees other than the carob (sense 1) may have been so called on account of the resemblance of their fruit to the carob pod. With the form locus tree compare locus , variant of locust n.

1. The carob tree, Ceratonia siliqua, of the Mediterranean region.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible pods, seeds, leaves, or flowers > [noun] > carob > carob-tree

siliquac1440

siliquec1440

carob1548

cod tree1560

locust tree1623

algarroba1671

horn-cod1682

carouba1856

1623 R. Jobson 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.

1776 Ann. Reg. 1775 ii. 92 A tree growing in Spain called..carrobe or locust-tree..the fruit exactly resembles kidney-beans.

1840 S. G. Goodrich Pict. Geogr. of World II. cxlii. 912 The husks, ‘which the swine did eat,’ and with which the prodigal was fain to fill himself, are supposed to be those of the fruit of the carob or locust-tree.

1897 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 1200 The process of obtaining gum from the seeds of the locust-tree (Ceratonia siliqua).

1979 J. P. Dutton Plants Colonial Williamsburg (1994) 30 One or more must have known of the ‘locust’ tree of southern Europe, the carob tree (Ceratonia silique [sic]), to which the name of the noisy insect was attached on account of the tree's rattling, sweet, edible pods.

2010 N. Patten Hounds of Samaria 86 I remain on lookout among the rocks beside the gnarled black trunk of a locust tree.

a. A leguminous tree of the genus Hymenaea (subfamily Caesalpinioideae), of the West Indies and tropical America; esp. the courbaril or jatoba, H. courbaril (also called West Indian locust tree).

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > courbarbil

locustc1612

locust tree1630

bastard locust tree1670

courbaril1753

jatoba1933

1630 J. Smith True Trav. xxv. 55 Sugar Canes, not tame, 4. or 5. foot high; also Masticke, and Locus Trees.

1693 S. Dale Pharmacologia 506 Gummi Animi..Locus vulgò. The Locust-Tree. In Nova Hispania & Brasilia oritur.

1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 221 The Locus Tree... It is a spreading shady tree, and found in many parts of Liguanea.

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. 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.

1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 542 This resin [sc. animé] is obtained from the hymenæa courbaril, or locust tree.

1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 165 The Locust-tree (Hymenæa) of tropical South America..affording a very tough and close-grained wood.

1941 E. H. Graham Legumes for Erosion Control & Wildlife 3 American rain forests include the giant trees purple heart (Peltogyne paniculata), South American locust (Hymenaea courbaril).

1994 J. Henderson Caribbean & Bahamas (ed. 3) 38 In lowlands and mid-range forests you will find..more exotic species such as the spiky-trunked sand-box tree, locust trees and silk cotton.

†b. A locust berry of the genus Byrsonima (see locust berry n. at locust n. Compounds 2). Obsolete. rare.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > tropical American or West Indian > locust-berry bush or fruit

locust berry1727

lotus-berry1799

locust tree1831

1831 G. Don Gen. Hist. Dichlamydeous Plants I. 637 B[yrsonima]coriacea... Brown calls this tree Locust-tree.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. (at cited word) Locust-tree... West Indian, Hymenæa coubaril; also Byrsonima coriacea and cinerea.

3. A leguminous tree of the North American genus Robinia (subfamily Faboideae); esp. the black locust, Robinia pseudoacacia.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > locust-tree

locustc1612

acacia1640

locust tree1640

robinia1752

mock-acacia1754

rose acacia1762

pseudo-acacia1775

1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1550 Arbor siliquosa Virginensis spinosa, Locus nostratibus dicta. The Virginian Locus tree.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 80/1 The [leaves of the] Locus tree, are oval leaves set on the stalk by short foot-stalks.

1775 A. Burnaby Trav. Middle Settlements N.-Amer. 69 The pseudo-acacia, or locust-tree.

1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall II. 206 The house stood..in the centre of a large field, with an avenue of old locust trees leading up to it.

1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains i. 8 Locust trees..gave it a foreign grace and interest.

1973 P. A. Munz & D. K. Keck Calif. Flora 855 Robinia... Named for Jean and Vespasian Robin, 16th century, who first cultivated the Locust Tree in Europe.

2011 J. Eberhart & C. Eberhart Bowhunting Whitetails xv. 172 In the patch of timber I found a couple prickly locust trees.

†4. bastard locust tree n. Obsolete (a) soapwood, Clethra tinifolia; (b) the courbaril, Hymenaea courbaril; cf. sense 2a.Cf. locust n. 6.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > courbarbil

locustc1612

locust tree1630

bastard locust tree1670

courbaril1753

jatoba1933

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies

sweetwood1607

mastic1657

acajou1666

bastard locust tree1670

alligator wood1696

muskwood1696

lancewood1697

rodwood1716

cog-wood1725

soapwood1733

down tree?1740

pigeon plum1743

break-axe tree1756

horse-wood1756

loblolly whitewood1756

Spanish elm1756

trumpet-tree1756

ahuehuete1778

ocote1787

locust tree1795

Madeira wood1796

peroba1813

roble1814

louro1816

cecropia1824

purple heart1825

wallaba1825

trumpet-wood1836

gumbo-limbo1837

poui1838

quebracho1839

snake-wood1843

yacca1843

horseflesh wood1851

necklace tree1858

Honduras rosewood1860

turanira1862

softwood1864

wattle-wood1864

balsa tree1866

primavera1871

rauli1874

lemon-wood1879

wheel-tree1882

Spanish stopper1883

gurgeon-stopper1884

pinkwood-tree1884

stopper1884

sloth-tree1885

imbaubaa1893

Spanish cedar1907

amarant1909

Parana pine1916

imbuya1919

mastic-bully1920

banak1921

timbo1924

becuiba1934

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 74 Another Locust there is, which they call the bastard-Locust.]

1670 S. Clarke True & Faithful Acct. Four Chiefest Plantations Eng. in Amer. 75 There is also a bastard Locust-tree that looks fair, but will not last.

1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 86 Bastard Locust-tree. The berries are ripe in August.

1806 G. Gregory Dict. Arts & Sci. I. 955/1 Hymenæa, the bastard locust tree.

1833 Veg. Substances: Materials Manufactures (Soc. Diffusion Useful Knowledge) xxvi. 428 The Hymenæa, or bastard locust-tree, which yields this resin, grows naturally in some parts of South America and in Mexico.

1889 Proc. National Acad. Sci. Philadelphia 41 389 Clethra tinifolia, Sw. Soap-wood, Wild Pear, Bastard Locust Tree. Indigenous and in Jamaica. This plant does not appear to be of use for anything.

5. With distinguishing word: any of various other leguminous trees, chiefly of the genera Gleditsia and Robinia.African, bastard, honey, swamp, water locust tree: see the first element.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun]

locust tree1795

margosa1802

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies

sweetwood1607

mastic1657

acajou1666

bastard locust tree1670

alligator wood1696

muskwood1696

lancewood1697

rodwood1716

cog-wood1725

soapwood1733

down tree?1740

pigeon plum1743

break-axe tree1756

horse-wood1756

loblolly whitewood1756

Spanish elm1756

trumpet-tree1756

ahuehuete1778

ocote1787

locust tree1795

Madeira wood1796

peroba1813

roble1814

louro1816

cecropia1824

purple heart1825

wallaba1825

trumpet-wood1836

gumbo-limbo1837

poui1838

quebracho1839

snake-wood1843

yacca1843

horseflesh wood1851

necklace tree1858

Honduras rosewood1860

turanira1862

softwood1864

wattle-wood1864

balsa tree1866

primavera1871

rauli1874

lemon-wood1879

wheel-tree1882

Spanish stopper1883

gurgeon-stopper1884

pinkwood-tree1884

stopper1884

sloth-tree1885

imbaubaa1893

Spanish cedar1907

amarant1909

Parana pine1916

imbuya1919

mastic-bully1920

banak1921

timbo1924

becuiba1934

1795 W. Winterbotham Hist. View Amer. U.S. III. 392 Rose-flowered locust tree. Robinia rosea.

1860 Ann. Rep. 1859–60, Govt. Botanist, Victoria 3 Rows of such umbrageous trees as are suitable to this climate, including Chinese locust trees, white cedars, paulownias, walnuts, &c., were planted in the central part of the garden.

1861 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1860: Agric. 420 (table) in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (36th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 48) VIII Robinia viscosa, Sticky locust tree.

1900 Nonindigenous Flora Ohio 6 Robinia viscosa (Clammy Locust); tree.

1974 Southwestern Naturalist 18 470 I noticed a bat hanging from an upper branch of a New Mexico locust tree (Robinia neomexicana).

2001 J. Kirkpatrick No Eye Can See 234 Chinese locust trees—the ones the Celestials planted and called Trees of Heavenly Light—stood with blackened trunks along with the oaks that once promised shade.

2012 Reporter (Vacaville, California) (Nexis) 13 July Vibrant, bursting with new growth and bearing a single violet-colored bloom, a freshly-planted Idaho Locust tree drew crowds.

†6. New Zealand. Any of several yellow-flowered leguminous trees of the genus Sophora (subfamily Faboideae), esp. the kowhai, S. tetraptera. Obsolete.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > kowhai

kowhai1831

locust tree1867

pelu1884

1867 E. Sauter tr. F. von Hochstetter New Zealand xviii. 391 (note) The shreds take root, and grow up into kowai-trees (Edwardsia microphylla, a beautiful locust-tree [Ger. Akazie] with yellow blossoms, quite frequent in the Taupo district).

1872 A. Domett Ranolf & Amohia vi. ii. 111 Feathery locust-trees o'erarched a little plot.

1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 254/2 Kowhai, Maori name given to (1) Locust-tree, Yellow Kowhai (Sophora tetraptera).

1927 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 57 933/3 [Popular Names of New Zealand Plants] Locust tree... Sophora tetraptera.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	locust tree
释义	locust treen. Brit. /ˈləʊkəst ˌtriː/, U.S. /ˈloʊkəst ˌtri/ Forms: 1600s–1700s locus tree, 1600s– locust tree. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: locust n., tree n. Etymology: < locust n. + tree n. (compare locust n. 5, 6).Trees other than the carob (sense 1) may have been so called on account of the resemblance of their fruit to the carob pod. With the form locus tree compare locus , variant of locust n. 1. The carob tree, Ceratonia siliqua, of the Mediterranean region. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible pods, seeds, leaves, or flowers > [noun] > carob > carob-tree siliquac1440 siliquec1440 carob1548 cod tree1560 locust tree1623 algarroba1671 horn-cod1682 carouba1856 1623 R. Jobson 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. 1776 Ann. Reg. 1775 ii. 92 A tree growing in Spain called..carrobe or locust-tree..the fruit exactly resembles kidney-beans. 1840 S. G. Goodrich Pict. Geogr. of World II. cxlii. 912 The husks, ‘which the swine did eat,’ and with which the prodigal was fain to fill himself, are supposed to be those of the fruit of the carob or locust-tree. 1897 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 1200 The process of obtaining gum from the seeds of the locust-tree (Ceratonia siliqua). 1979 J. P. Dutton Plants Colonial Williamsburg (1994) 30 One or more must have known of the ‘locust’ tree of southern Europe, the carob tree (Ceratonia silique [sic]), to which the name of the noisy insect was attached on account of the tree's rattling, sweet, edible pods. 2010 N. Patten Hounds of Samaria 86 I remain on lookout among the rocks beside the gnarled black trunk of a locust tree. 2. a. A leguminous tree of the genus Hymenaea (subfamily Caesalpinioideae), of the West Indies and tropical America; esp. the courbaril or jatoba, H. courbaril (also called West Indian locust tree). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > courbarbil locustc1612 locust tree1630 bastard locust tree1670 courbaril1753 jatoba1933 1630 J. Smith True Trav. xxv. 55 Sugar Canes, not tame, 4. or 5. foot high; also Masticke, and Locus Trees. 1693 S. Dale Pharmacologia 506 Gummi Animi..Locus vulgò. The Locust-Tree. In Nova Hispania & Brasilia oritur. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 221 The Locus Tree... It is a spreading shady tree, and found in many parts of Liguanea. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. 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. 1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 542 This resin [sc. animé] is obtained from the hymenæa courbaril, or locust tree. 1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 165 The Locust-tree (Hymenæa) of tropical South America..affording a very tough and close-grained wood. 1941 E. H. Graham Legumes for Erosion Control & Wildlife 3 American rain forests include the giant trees purple heart (Peltogyne paniculata), South American locust (Hymenaea courbaril). 1994 J. Henderson Caribbean & Bahamas (ed. 3) 38 In lowlands and mid-range forests you will find..more exotic species such as the spiky-trunked sand-box tree, locust trees and silk cotton. †b. A locust berry of the genus Byrsonima (see locust berry n. at locust n. Compounds 2). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > tropical American or West Indian > locust-berry bush or fruit locust berry1727 lotus-berry1799 locust tree1831 1831 G. Don Gen. Hist. Dichlamydeous Plants I. 637 B[yrsonima]coriacea... Brown calls this tree Locust-tree. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. (at cited word) Locust-tree... West Indian, Hymenæa coubaril; also Byrsonima coriacea and cinerea. 3. A leguminous tree of the North American genus Robinia (subfamily Faboideae); esp. the black locust, Robinia pseudoacacia. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > locust-tree locustc1612 acacia1640 locust tree1640 robinia1752 mock-acacia1754 rose acacia1762 pseudo-acacia1775 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1550 Arbor siliquosa Virginensis spinosa, Locus nostratibus dicta. The Virginian Locus tree. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 80/1 The [leaves of the] Locus tree, are oval leaves set on the stalk by short foot-stalks. 1775 A. Burnaby Trav. Middle Settlements N.-Amer. 69 The pseudo-acacia, or locust-tree. 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall II. 206 The house stood..in the centre of a large field, with an avenue of old locust trees leading up to it. 1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains i. 8 Locust trees..gave it a foreign grace and interest. 1973 P. A. Munz & D. K. Keck Calif. Flora 855 Robinia... Named for Jean and Vespasian Robin, 16th century, who first cultivated the Locust Tree in Europe. 2011 J. Eberhart & C. Eberhart Bowhunting Whitetails xv. 172 In the patch of timber I found a couple prickly locust trees. †4. bastard locust tree n. Obsolete (a) soapwood, Clethra tinifolia; (b) the courbaril, Hymenaea courbaril; cf. sense 2a.Cf. locust n. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > courbarbil locustc1612 locust tree1630 bastard locust tree1670 courbaril1753 jatoba1933 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies sweetwood1607 mastic1657 acajou1666 bastard locust tree1670 bastard locust tree1670 alligator wood1696 muskwood1696 lancewood1697 rodwood1716 cog-wood1725 soapwood1733 down tree?1740 pigeon plum1743 break-axe tree1756 horse-wood1756 loblolly whitewood1756 Spanish elm1756 trumpet-tree1756 ahuehuete1778 ocote1787 locust tree1795 Madeira wood1796 peroba1813 roble1814 louro1816 cecropia1824 purple heart1825 wallaba1825 trumpet-wood1836 gumbo-limbo1837 poui1838 quebracho1839 snake-wood1843 yacca1843 horseflesh wood1851 necklace tree1858 Honduras rosewood1860 turanira1862 softwood1864 wattle-wood1864 balsa tree1866 primavera1871 rauli1874 lemon-wood1879 wheel-tree1882 Spanish stopper1883 gurgeon-stopper1884 pinkwood-tree1884 stopper1884 sloth-tree1885 imbaubaa1893 Spanish cedar1907 amarant1909 Parana pine1916 imbuya1919 mastic-bully1920 banak1921 timbo1924 becuiba1934 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 74 Another Locust there is, which they call the bastard-Locust.] 1670 S. Clarke True & Faithful Acct. Four Chiefest Plantations Eng. in Amer. 75 There is also a bastard Locust-tree that looks fair, but will not last. 1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 86 Bastard Locust-tree. The berries are ripe in August. 1806 G. Gregory Dict. Arts & Sci. I. 955/1 Hymenæa, the bastard locust tree. 1833 Veg. Substances: Materials Manufactures (Soc. Diffusion Useful Knowledge) xxvi. 428 The Hymenæa, or bastard locust-tree, which yields this resin, grows naturally in some parts of South America and in Mexico. 1889 Proc. National Acad. Sci. Philadelphia 41 389 Clethra tinifolia, Sw. Soap-wood, Wild Pear, Bastard Locust Tree. Indigenous and in Jamaica. This plant does not appear to be of use for anything. 5. With distinguishing word: any of various other leguminous trees, chiefly of the genera Gleditsia and Robinia.African, bastard, honey, swamp, water locust tree: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] locust tree1795 margosa1802 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies sweetwood1607 mastic1657 acajou1666 bastard locust tree1670 bastard locust tree1670 alligator wood1696 muskwood1696 lancewood1697 rodwood1716 cog-wood1725 soapwood1733 down tree?1740 pigeon plum1743 break-axe tree1756 horse-wood1756 loblolly whitewood1756 Spanish elm1756 trumpet-tree1756 ahuehuete1778 ocote1787 locust tree1795 Madeira wood1796 peroba1813 roble1814 louro1816 cecropia1824 purple heart1825 wallaba1825 trumpet-wood1836 gumbo-limbo1837 poui1838 quebracho1839 snake-wood1843 yacca1843 horseflesh wood1851 necklace tree1858 Honduras rosewood1860 turanira1862 softwood1864 wattle-wood1864 balsa tree1866 primavera1871 rauli1874 lemon-wood1879 wheel-tree1882 Spanish stopper1883 gurgeon-stopper1884 pinkwood-tree1884 stopper1884 sloth-tree1885 imbaubaa1893 Spanish cedar1907 amarant1909 Parana pine1916 imbuya1919 mastic-bully1920 banak1921 timbo1924 becuiba1934 1795 W. Winterbotham Hist. View Amer. U.S. III. 392 Rose-flowered locust tree. Robinia rosea. 1860 Ann. Rep. 1859–60, Govt. Botanist, Victoria 3 Rows of such umbrageous trees as are suitable to this climate, including Chinese locust trees, white cedars, paulownias, walnuts, &c., were planted in the central part of the garden. 1861 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1860: Agric. 420 (table) in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (36th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 48) VIII Robinia viscosa, Sticky locust tree. 1900 Nonindigenous Flora Ohio 6 Robinia viscosa (Clammy Locust); tree. 1974 Southwestern Naturalist 18 470 I noticed a bat hanging from an upper branch of a New Mexico locust tree (Robinia neomexicana). 2001 J. Kirkpatrick No Eye Can See 234 Chinese locust trees—the ones the Celestials planted and called Trees of Heavenly Light—stood with blackened trunks along with the oaks that once promised shade. 2012 Reporter (Vacaville, California) (Nexis) 13 July Vibrant, bursting with new growth and bearing a single violet-colored bloom, a freshly-planted Idaho Locust tree drew crowds. †6. New Zealand. Any of several yellow-flowered leguminous trees of the genus Sophora (subfamily Faboideae), esp. the kowhai, S. tetraptera. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > kowhai kowhai1831 locust tree1867 pelu1884 1867 E. Sauter tr. F. von Hochstetter New Zealand xviii. 391 (note) The shreds take root, and grow up into kowai-trees (Edwardsia microphylla, a beautiful locust-tree [Ger. Akazie] with yellow blossoms, quite frequent in the Taupo district). 1872 A. Domett Ranolf & Amohia vi. ii. 111 Feathery locust-trees o'erarched a little plot. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 254/2 Kowhai, Maori name given to (1) Locust-tree, Yellow Kowhai (Sophora tetraptera). 1927 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 57 933/3 [Popular Names of New Zealand Plants] Locust tree... Sophora tetraptera. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1623
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