water locust


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Related to water locust: black locust, honey locust
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Noun1.Water locust - honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval podswater locust - honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood
locust tree, locust - any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae
genus Gleditsia, Gleditsia - deciduous trees: honey locusts
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On the slippery blue burnt cheeks of night's final hours, water locusts are ashamed of their end-of-war erotic sorrow.