Lead tree Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun low scrubby tree of tropical and subtropical North America having white flowers tinged with yellow resembling mimosa and long flattened pods
white popinac; Leucaena leucocephala; Leucaena glauca.
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(a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous tree,Leucæna glauca ; probably so called from the glaucous color of the foliage.(b) (Chem.) Lead crystallized in arborescent forms from a solution of some lead salt, as by suspending a strip of zinc in lead acetate.