English > parasitic plant: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it. |
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| Narrower | American mistletoe, Arceuthobium pusillum | small herb with scalelike leaves on reddish-brown stems and berrylike fruits |
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| Loranthaceae, family Loranthaceae, mistletoe family | In some classification includes Viscaceae |
| bastard toadflax, Comandra pallida | woody creeping parasite of western North America having numerous thick powdery leaves and panicles of small dull-white flowers |
| buckleya, Buckleya distichophylla | Parasitic shrub of the eastern United States having opposite leaves and insignificant greenish flowers followed by oily dull green olivelike fruits |
| flame tree, fire tree, Christmas tree, Nuytsia floribunda | A terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers |
| hemiparasite, semiparasite | A parasitic plant that contains some chlorophyll and therefore / therefore is capable of photosynthesis |
| mistletoe, Viscum album, Old World mistletoe | Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries |
| mistletoe, false mistletoe | American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe |
| mistletoe, Loranthus europaeus | shrub of central and southeastern Europe |
| parasite yew, Parasitaxus ustus | Rare and endangered monoecious parasitic conifer of New Caledonia |
| rabbitwood, buffalo nut, Pyrularia pubera | shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes |
| Broader | parasite | An animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant) |
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