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    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 podsplay

    Synonyms:

    lead tree; Leucaena glauca; Leucaena leucocephala; white popinac

    Classified under:

    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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