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LEUCAENA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having pods like those of the acacia
Synonyms:
genus Leucaena; Leucaena
Classified under:
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)