| NOUN | plant | strangler, strangler tree | an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree |
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| person | strangler, garroter, garrotter, throttler, choker | someone who kills by strangling |
| Sounds | strae'nggler | |
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| Rhymes | alveolar ... Ziegler: 240 rhymes with ler... | |
| Meaning | An epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree. | |
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| Synonym | strangler tree | |
| Narrower | pitch apple, strangler fig, Clusia rosea, Clusia major | A common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers |
| Broader | air plant, epiphyte, aerophyte, epiphytic plant | plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain |
| Verbs | strangle | kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air |
| Meaning | someone who kills by strangling. | |
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| Synonyms | garroter, garrotter, throttler, choker | |
| Broader | killer, slayer | someone who causes the death of a person or animal |
| Spanish | estrangulador | |
| Catalan | estrangulador | |
| Verbs | strangle | kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air |
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