genus leucaena

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

hypernym	:	rosid dicot genus,
definition	:	a genus of dicotyledonous plants (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	lead tree, leucaena glauca, leucaena leucocephala, white popinac,
definition	:	low scrubby tree of tropical and subtropical North America having white flowers tinged with yellow resembling mimosa and long flattened pods (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	mimosoideae, subfamily mimosoideae,
definition	:	alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae (noun.plant)