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black locust
(redirected from yellow locust)

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black locust: see locust locust, in botany, any species of the genus Robinia, deciduous trees or shrubs of the family Leguminosae ( pulse family) native to the United States and Mexico.
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Following in the wake of the American chestnut are red mulberries, hickories, red and black oak, and yellow locust - that last a rot-resistant cove species known among early colonists as "shipmast locust" and distinguished locally from the junk black locust that sprouts in open fields and makes a bad fence.
 
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