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Definition of: laburnum
(lə·bûr′nəm) noun
Any of a genus (Laburnum) of deciduous Old World trees, especially the golden–chain laburnum (L. anagyroides), having pendulous racemes of yellow flowers and hard, dark wood: it yields a poisonous alkaloid used in medicine as a purgative and emetic. [<NL <L; ult. origin unknown]
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