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strangler

DEFINITIONS OF: strangler

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n someone who kills by strangling

Synonyms:
choker, garroter, garrotter, throttler
Type of:
killer, slayer
someone who causes the death of a person or animal

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

Synonyms:
strangler tree
Types:
Clusia major, Clusia rosea, pitch apple, strangler fig
a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers
Type 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
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