leucadendron Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Leu`ca*den"dron noun
Etymology
NL., fr. Gr. white + tree.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A genus of evergreen shrubs from the Cape of Good Hope, having handsome foliage. Leucadendron argenteum is the silverboom of the colonists.

Webster 1913