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low scrubby tree of tropical and subtropical North America having white flowers tinged with yellow resembling mimosa and long flattened pods

1. : lead crystallized in arborescent forms from a solution of some lead salt (as by suspending a strip of zinc in lead acetate)

2. : a plant of the genus Leucaena; especially : a low scrubby tree (Leucaena glauca) prob. native to tropical America but now pantropical in distribution and often cultivated as a ground cover, for windrows or hedging, and as forage for cattle and sheep though reputedly toxic to horses and swine

any of several tropical trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Leucaena, of the legume family, esp. L. glauca, having pinnate leaves and white flowers.

[1860-65]

lead tree noun

Saturn's tree (qv)

Main Entry: ↑lead