STRANGLER TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strangler tree mean? 

• STRANGLER TREE (noun)
  The noun STRANGLER TREE has 1 sense:

1. an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree

  Familiarity information: STRANGLER TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRANGLER TREE (noun)

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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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

strangler; strangler tree

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

aerophyte; air plant; epiphyte; epiphytic plant (plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "strangler tree"):

Clusia major; Clusia rosea; pitch apple; strangler fig (a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers)