noun
low scrubby tree of tropical and subtropical North America having white flowers tinged with yellow resembling mimosa and long flattened pods
• Syn: ↑lead tree, ↑Leucaena glauca, ↑Leucaena leucocephala
• Hypernyms: ↑tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Leucaena, ↑genus Leucaena
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noun : a small evergreen tropical American leguminous tree (Leucaena glauca) that is sometimes cultivated in warm regions for its showy globose heads of white flowers and is widely naturalized in tropical regions
Useful english dictionary. 2012.