black locust

English

Black locust
compound leaves

Noun

black locust (plural black locusts)

1. A tree, Robinia pseudoacacia, in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to the southeastern United States, but widely planted and naturalized elsewhere in temperate North America, Europe and Asia; considered an invasive species in some areas.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black,‎ locust.

Synonyms

• (Robinia pseudoacacia): false acacia, yellow locust

Translations

Robinia pseudoacacia

• Albanian: akacie (sq) f, sallgam (sq) m
• Arabic: شَجَرَةُ الْجَرَادِ f (šajaratu l-jarādi), سَنْطٌ كَاذِبٌ m (sanṭun kāḏibun)
• Basque: sasiakazia
• Catalan: acàcia borda f, robínia f
• Czech: akát (cs) m
• Finnish: valeakaasia (fi)
• French: robinier (fr) m, robinier faux-acacia (fr) m, faux-acacia (fr) m, acacia blanc (fr) m
• German: Robinie (de) f, Scheinakazie f
• Hungarian: akác (hu), fehér akác (hu)
• Irish: crann lócaiste m
• Italian: robinia f
• Japanese: 針槐 (ハリエンジュ, harienju)
• Korean: 아까시나무 (ko) (akkasinamu)
• Macedonian: багрем m (bagrem)
• Occitan: robínia f, falsa-acàcia f
• Polish: robinia (pl) f
• Portuguese: acácia-bastarda f, acácia-branca f, falsa-acácia f
• Romanian: salcâm (ro) m
• Russian: бе́лая ака́ция f (bélaja akácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ба̀грем m

  Latin: bàgrem (sh) m

• Slovak: agát biely (sk)
• Swedish: robinia c, falsk akacia c
• Welsh: ffug acasia f, pren locust m

References

• Robinia pseudoacacia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Robinia pseudoacacia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Robinia pseudoacacia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• black locust at USDA Plants database