- A large North American tree of the genus Robinia (R.
Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant,
papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In
England it is called acacia.
- A tree that furnished the precious wood of which the
ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made;
-- now believed to have been the wood of the Acacia Seyal, which is
hard, fine grained, and yellowish brown in color.