FLORIDA STRANGLER FIG

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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

Synonyms:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Florida 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 ("Florida strangler fig" is a member of...):

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

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