STRANGLER FIG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strangler fig mean? 

• STRANGLER FIG (noun)
  The noun STRANGLER FIG has 2 senses:

1. a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas

2. a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers

  Familiarity information: STRANGLER FIG used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRANGLER FIG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ficus aurea; Florida strangler fig; golden fig; strangler fig; wild fig

Hypernyms ("strangler fig" is a kind of...):

fig tree (any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature)

Holonyms ("strangler fig" is a member of...):

Ficus; genus Ficus (large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Clusia major; Clusia rosea; pitch apple; strangler fig

Hypernyms ("strangler fig" is a kind of...):

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)

Holonyms ("strangler fig" is a member of...):

genus Clusia (tropical American aromatic trees or shrubs; often epiphytic; some stranglers)