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LEUCADENDRON
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Large genus of evergreen trees and shrubs having silvery white leaves and solitary terminal flowers with conspicuous silvery bracts
Synonyms:
genus Leucadendron; Leucadendron
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Leucadendron" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "Leucadendron"):
Leucadendron argenteum; silver tree (small South African tree with long silvery silky foliage)
Holonyms ("Leucadendron" is a member of...):
family Proteaceae; protea family; Proteaceae (large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales)
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