yellow locust

Questions about yellow locust

What is another word for yellow locust?

It depends which yellow locust you mean. In the sense “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”, the synonyms are black locust, Robinia pseudoacacia. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of yellow locust?

WordNet records no antonym for yellow locust. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for yellow locust come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of yellow locust

• Full entry for yellow locustAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for yellow locustWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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