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lead·wort  audio  (ldwûrt, -wôrt) KEY 

NOUN:
  1. Any of various chiefly tropical plants of the genus Plumbago, having clusters of variously colored flowers.
  2. Any of several similar plants.
ETYMOLOGY:
From the hue of some of its flowers


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