LEUCAENA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Leucaena mean? 

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

1. small genus of tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having pods like those of the acacia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEUCAENA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Leucaena; Leucaena

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)