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    STRANGLER TREE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    strangler; strangler tree

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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)

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