An epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree.
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Examples for "strangler "
Examples for "strangler "
1 Two countries have placed a strangler fig on their coats of arms.
2 Now for the first time in his narrative did the strangler betray emotion.
3 Then his voice stopped as if a strangler 's thumb had blocked the windpipe.
4 They took a fancy to the strangler figs and brought back a sapling.
5 Graham Guthrie, very pale, stood looking down at the dead strangler .
1 The fig trees helped forests return and overwhelm the abandoned buildings Giant strangler trees dominated the landscape.
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