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Webster 1913 Edition

Leucadendron

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Leuˊca-den′dron

(lūˊkȧ-dĕn′drŏn)

,

Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

λευκόσ

white +

δένδρον

tree.]

(Bot.)

A genus of evergreen shrubs from the Cape of Good Hope, having handsome foliage.

Leucadendron argenteum

is the

silverboom

of the colonists.