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robinia

British  
/ rəˈbɪnɪə /

noun

  1. any tree of the leguminous genus Robinia , esp 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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We proceeded along its valley, where colossal planes and elms, as well as robinia and willows, afforded a welcome shade.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian

From time to time, I see her also cutting bits out of the robinia, the quince-tree and the cherry-tree.

From Bramble-Bees and Others by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Here is the true homeland of many of the show-plants in the flower-gardens of Europe, as, for instance, the peony, the Siberian robinia, the blue iris, &c.

From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie

He said that, if London were destroyed to-morrow, in ten years' time its site would be covered with a forest of maple, sycamore, robinia, showing an undergrowth of Persian willow-herb.

From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

Chance led me under a robinia or iron-wood tree, the trunk of which will defy the best-tempered axe.

From Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Parker Gillmore

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