HyperDic: strangler_tree

English > 1 sense of the expression strangler tree:
NOUNplantstrangler tree, strangleran epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree
English > strangler tree: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningAn epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree.
Synonymstrangler
Narrowerpitch apple, strangler fig, Clusia rosea, Clusia majorA common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers
Broaderair plant, epiphyte, aerophyte, epiphytic plantplant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain

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