Definition of Lead tree

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

Exact synonyms: Leucaena Glauca, Leucaena Leucocephala, White Popinac
Group relationships: Genus Leucaena, Leucaena
Generic synonyms: Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lead Tree

lead shot
lead single
lead someone down the garden path
lead stomatitis
lead storage battery
lead story
lead suboxide
lead sulfate
lead sulfide
lead sulphate
lead tetraethyl
lead tetroxide
lead the line
lead time
lead times
lead tree (current term)
lead up
lead up the garden path
lead vocalist
lead vocals
leadamalgam
leade
leaded
leaded bronze
leaded gasoline
leaded type
leaden
leadened
leadening
leadenly

Literary usage of Lead tree

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

1. Laboratory Manual of Colloid Chemistry by Harry Nicholls Holmes (1922)
"lead tree."—Simon grew the well-known " lead tree " in a silicic acid gel containing lead acetate. A bit of zinc or tin was pressed into the top of the gel. ..."

2. The Boy's Own Book: A Complete Encyclopedia of All the Diversions, Athletic by William Clarke (1829)
"THE lead tree. Put into a common wine decanter about half .an ounce of super-acetate ... Into the same, or a similar vessel, to that used for the lead tree, ..."

3. First Book in Chemistry: For the Use of Schools and Families by Worthington Hooker (1862)
"This tree is made of the metal lead, and is called the lead tree.* The explanation is this. The acetic acid has a stronger affinity for zinc than it has for ..."

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