LEAD TREE

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Low scrubby tree of tropical and subtropical North America having white flowers tinged with yellow resembling mimosa and long flattened pods

Synonyms:

lead tree; Leucaena glauca; Leucaena leucocephala; white popinac

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("lead tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("lead tree" is a member of...):

genus Leucaena; Leucaena (small genus of tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having pods like those of the acacia)

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