Genus Gleditsia (Noun)
Meaning
Deciduous trees: honey locusts.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Gleditsia is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fabaceae, commonly known as honey locusts and native to North America and Asia.
- Honey locusts of the genus Gleditsia have large, compound leaves bearing two to eight pairs of pinnate leaflets.
- The genus Gleditsia contains around twelve species of honey locust trees, some of which can grow as tall as 150 feet.
- Classification of genus Gleditsia generally puts the honey locusts within the family Fabaceae, specifically in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
- The most well-known species of the genus Gleditsia is Gleditsia triacanthos, a large deciduous tree native to parts of North America.