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honey locust vs locust

locust vs honey locust

honey locust and locust both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
honey locust Yes No No No
locust Yes No No No
As nouns, locust is a hypernym of honey locust; that is, locust is a word with a broader meaning than honey locust:
  • honey locust: tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods; yields very hard durable reddish-brown wood; introduced to temperate Old World
  • locust: any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae
Other hypernyms of honey locust include locust tree.
honey locust (noun) locust (noun)
tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods; yields very hard durable reddish-brown wood; introduced to temperate Old World migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae
any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae
hardwood from any of various locust trees
Difference between honey locust and locust

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