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    LEUCAENA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small genus of tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having pods like those of the acaciaplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Leucaena; Leucaena

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Leucaena" is a kind of...):

    rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "Leucaena"):

    lead tree; Leucaena glauca; Leucaena leucocephala; white popinac (low scrubby tree of tropical and subtropical North America having white flowers tinged with yellow resembling mimosa and long flattened pods)

    Holonyms ("Leucaena" is a member of...):

    Mimosoideae; subfamily Mimosoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae)

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