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Definition of Leucaena glauca

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leucaena Glauca

Literary usage of Leucaena glauca

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1917)
"Ipil-ipil (Leucaena glauca).—The cogon areas along roads were planted with ipil-ipil seedlings by means of sharp pointed dibbles. ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"... Saman and Leucaena, glauca are of an intermediate character. In some cases both classes of movements persist from the period at which they first ..."

3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"3 and 4 of Leucaena glauca, taken on the same day from the same spot; fig. 3 when the leaflets were in the horizontal position; and fig. ..."

4. Annual Report of the Director of Forestry by Philippines Bureau of Forestry (1916)
"Ipil-ipil (Leucaena glauca).—The cogon areas along roads were planted with ipil-ipil seedlings by means of sharp pointed dibbles. ..."

5. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1916)
"In Leucaena glauca, we have an, example of a group of plants in which the night position is above the horizontal instead of below it. ..."

6. The Review of Applied Entomology by Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, Imperial Bureau of Entomology (1916)
"... (Leucaena glauca) and on Tephrosia vogeli, but not in the open. From a few pods, a considerable number of parasitic Hymenoptera were bred, including two ..."

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