PARASITIC PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parasitic plant mean? 

• PARASITIC PLANT (noun)
  The noun PARASITIC PLANT has 1 sense:

1. plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it

  Familiarity information: PARASITIC PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARASITIC PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("parasitic plant" is a kind of...):

parasite (an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parasitic plant"):

Parasitaxus ustus; parasite yew (rare and endangered monoecious parasitic conifer of New Caledonia; parasitic on Falcatifolium taxoides)

buckleya; Buckleya distichophylla (parasitic shrub of the eastern United States having opposite leaves and insignificant greenish flowers followed by oily dull green olivelike fruits)

bastard toadflax; Comandra pallida (woody creeping parasite of western North America having numerous thick powdery leaves and panicles of small dull-white flowers)

buffalo nut; Pyrularia pubera; rabbitwood (shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes)

family Loranthaceae; Loranthaceae; mistletoe family (in some classification includes Viscaceae: parasitic or hemiparasitic shrublets or shrubs or small trees of tropical and temperate regions; attach to hosts by haustoria)

Loranthus europaeus; mistletoe (shrub of central and southeastern Europe; partially parasitic on beeches, chestnuts and oaks)

American mistletoe; Arceuthobium pusillum (small herb with scalelike leaves on reddish-brown stems and berrylike fruits; parasitic on spruce and larch trees)

Christmas tree; fire tree; flame tree; Nuytsia floribunda (a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses)

mistletoe; Old World mistletoe; Viscum album (Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas)

false mistletoe; mistletoe (American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe)

hemiparasite; semiparasite (a parasitic plant that contains some chlorophyll and therefore is capable of photosynthesis)