strangler
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- noun
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planta estranguladora
- In the rainforest, the strangler fig climbs the host tree and eventually chokes it to death.
- strangler fig
Examples
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There is Ta Prohm, which was left the way it was found, with strangler figs and silk-cotton trees growing from the walls and the jungle creeping in on all sides.
Blog text (3) -
These typically form when a "strangler" fig tree grows around another tree, kills it, and the dead supporting tree rots away, leaving an empty space.
Academic text (2010) -
I wouldn't want my favorite African Strangler to choke.
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- What strangler?
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It isn't even a Strangler Fig!
Fiction book (1997) -
As you stand in the jungle in the wake of your error, viscerally perplexed in the extreme, the Strangler Fig is no longer an example of a Strangler Fig.
Fiction book (1997) -
As you stand in the jungle in the wake of your error, viscerally perplexed in the extreme, the Strangler Fig is no longer an example of a Strangler Fig.
Fiction book (1997) -
If killed by the strangler, the supporting tree will rot away, leaving a comfortable hollow that enhances the fig tree as a sleeping site for tarsiers, birds, and rodents.
Academic text (2010) -
A small machete tucked in his belt, Mokomoko climbed upward, grasping vines and the strangler fig itself for support.
Academic text (1991) -
Hence the name strangler fig, I imagine, but then how unsettling, even unseemly, that its Latin name should be ficus religiosa, and that the bo tree the determined Siddhartha sat down to meditate under, long ago in India, was just such a tree.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
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A tropical tree that begins life on another tree then grows around and often kills it
A tree or vine that grows on another tree and sends roots down to surround and kill it
Compounds
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A tropical tree that begins life on another tree then grows around and often kills it
- Specialized
A large tree that starts on another tree and grows roots that wrap and cover the host
A tree or vine that grows on another tree and sends roots down to surround and kill it
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Strangler as a plant name comes from the verb strangle, meaning 'to choke', because the vine or strangler fig wraps tightly around a host tree and slowly kills it.