black locust
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
strong stiff wood of a black-locust tree; very resistant to decay
Types & categories
- wood hypernym
Parts & wholes
- yellow locust substance holonym
Sense 2 noun
large thorny tree of eastern and central United States having pinnately compound leaves and drooping racemes of white flowers; widely naturalized in many varieties in temperate regions
Types & categories
- locust tree hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Robinia member holonym
- black locust substance meronym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | substance holonym | Parts & wholes | yellow locust |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | wood |
| 2 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Robinia |
| 2 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | black locust |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | locust tree |