gleditsia aquatica
- n honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood
gleditsia triacanthos
- n tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods; yields very hard durable reddish-brown wood; introduced to temperate Old World
gleet
- n a thin morbid discharge as from a wound or especially chronic gonorrhea
gleichenia
- n type genus of Gleicheniaceae: leptosporangiate ferns with sessile sporangia; South Africa to Malaysia and New Zealand
gleichenia flabellata
- n large Australasian fern with fanlike repeatedly forked fronds; sometimes placed in genus Gleichenia
glen canyon dam
- n a large dam built in 1964 on the Colorado River in Arizona
glen gebhard
- n Venezuelan master terrorist raised by a Marxist-Leninist father; trained and worked with many terrorist groups (born in 1949)