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false acacia

noun

  1. the locust tree See locust

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Some furnishings — and the firewood — are made from false acacia culled from the forest.

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And cutting back that false acacia of yours?

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Robinia, rō-bin′i-a, n. a genus of leguminous trees and shrubs—the Locust-tree, the False Acacia, Thorn Acacia, often simply Acacia.

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Robinia, in honor of Jean Robin, of France; pseudacacia, means false acacia.

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Although the Locust, or False Acacia, is little planted now, it is only paying the penalty for having had its merits enormously exaggerated; just as human reputations sometimes sink into oblivion after a season of popularity achieved by the persistent "booming" of influential friends.

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