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Leandra (disambiguation)

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Leandra is a genus of plant in the family Melastomataceae.

Leandra may also refer to:

  • Leandra, Mpumalanga, a settlement in Gert Sibande District Municipality in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa

The given name Leandra may refer to:

In fiction

  • Leandra - a character in Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. She is a beautiful woman with many suitors, and when she chooses one her father disapproves and so he retires her to a convent. All her suitors withdraw to the mountains where they become shepherds and goat-herders so that they can spend their days writing songs and poems about how beautiful she is.

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