| NOUN | plant | Viscum album, mistletoe, Old World mistletoe | Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries |
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| Meaning | Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas. | |
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| Synonyms | mistletoe, Old World mistletoe | |
| Member of | Viscum, genus Viscum | type genus of the Viscaceae |
| Broader | parasitic plant | plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it |
| Spanish | muérdago, viscum album | |
| Catalan | vesc, viscum album, Viscum album | |
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