Usually means: Plant genus, includes plumbago species.
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  1. leadwort: Merriam-Webster
  2. leadwort: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. leadwort: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. leadwort: Collins English Dictionary
  5. leadwort: Vocabulary.com
  6. leadwort: Wordnik
  7. leadwort: Wiktionary
  8. leadwort: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. leadwort: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Leadwort, leadwort: Dictionary.com
  11. Leadwort: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Leadwort: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. leadwort: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. leadwort: Rhymezone
  15. Leadwort: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. leadwort: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. leadwort: FreeDictionary.org
  18. leadwort: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. leadwort: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (leadwort)

noun:  Plants in family Plumbaginaceae
noun:  Any of various maritime herbs of the genus Plumbago, some of which have lead-coloured spots on the leaves or nearly lead-coloured flowers.
noun:  especially, of species Plumbago europaea, of southern Europe, north Africa, the eastern Mediterranean, and Armenia.
noun:  Any of various plants of genus Ceratostigma.
noun:  A leadplant, a leguminous shrub of species Amorpha canescens,) of the western U.S. that has hoary pinnate leaves and bears dull-colored racemose flowers; supposed to help locate lead deposits.
noun:  Diverse plants that tolerate high levels of lead, such as spring sandwort (Sabulina verna subsp. verna, syn. Minuartia verna) and alpine pennycress (Noccaea caerulescens, syn. Thlaspi caerulescens).

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