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WHITE POPINAC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white popinac mean? 

WHITE POPINAC (noun)
  The noun WHITE POPINAC has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: WHITE POPINAC used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WHITE POPINAC (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

lead tree; Leucaena glauca; Leucaena leucocephala; white popinac

Hypernyms ("white popinac" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("white popinac" is a member of...):

genus Leucaena; Leucaena (small genus of tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having pods like those of the acacia)


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