noun
1. a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers
• Syn: ↑pitch apple, ↑Clusia rosea, ↑Clusia major
• Hypernyms: ↑strangler, ↑strangler tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Clusia
2. a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas
• Syn: ↑golden fig, ↑Florida strangler fig, ↑wild fig, ↑Ficus aurea
• Hypernyms: ↑fig tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Ficus, ↑genus Ficus
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noun also strangler (-s) : any of several epiphytic vines or trees: as
a. : pitch apple
b. : a fig (Ficus aurea) of the southeastern United States with sessile spheroidal or obovoid fruit — called also golden fig
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strangler fig,
a fig tree of Florida and the Bahama Islands that begins its growth as a parasite on another tree, reaches its top, and then gradually strangles the existing tree in a mass of roots, finally standing in place of the original tree.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.