LEUCADENDRON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Leucadendron mean? 

• LEUCADENDRON (noun)
  The noun LEUCADENDRON has 1 sense:

1. large genus of evergreen trees and shrubs having silvery white leaves and solitary terminal flowers with conspicuous silvery bracts

  Familiarity information: LEUCADENDRON used as a noun is very rare.

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• LEUCADENDRON (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Leucadendron; Leucadendron

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)