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mistletoe
(mɪsəltoʊ)
uncountable noun
Mistletoe is a plant with pale berries that grows on the branches of some trees. Mistletoe is used in Britain and the United States as a Christmas decoration, and people often kiss under it.
mistletoe in British English
(ˈmɪsəlˌtəʊ)
noun
1.
a Eurasian evergreen shrub, Viscum album, with leathery leaves, yellowish flowers, and waxy white berries: grows as a partial parasite on various trees: used as a Christmas decoration: family Viscaceae
2.
any of several similar and related American plants in the families Loranthaceae or Viscaceae, esp Phoradendron flavescens
3. mistletoe cactus
Word origin
Old English misteltān, from mistel mistletoe + tān twig; related to Old Norse mistilteinnmistletoe in American English
(ˈmɪsəlˌtou)
noun
1.
a European plant, Viscum album, having yellowish flowers and white berries, growing parasitically on various trees,used in Christmas decorations
2.
any of several other related, similar plants, as Phoradendron serotinum, of the U.S.: the state flower of Oklahoma
Word origin
[bef. 1000; ME mistelto, appar. back formation from OE misteltān (mistel mistletoe, basil + tān twig), the -n being taken as pl. ending; c. ON mistilteinn]Image ofmistletoe
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British English: mistletoe /ˈmɪslˌtəʊ/ NOUN
Mistletoe is a plant with pale berries that grows on the branches of some trees.
- American English: mistletoe
- Arabic: نَبَاتُ الهُدَال
- Brazilian Portuguese: visco
- Chinese: 槲寄生
- Croatian: imela
- Czech: jmelí
- Danish: mistelten
- Dutch: maretak
- European Spanish: muérdago
- Finnish: misteli
- French: gui
- German: Mistel
- Greek: γκι
- Italian: vischio
- Japanese: ヤドリギ
- Korean: 겨우살이
- Norwegian: misteltein
- Polish: jemioła
- European Portuguese: visco
- Romanian: vâsc
- Russian: омела
- Latin American Spanish: muérdago
- Swedish: mistel
- Thai: ไม้จำพวกกาฝากขึ้นตามต้นไม้
- Turkish: ökseotu
- Ukrainian: омела
- Vietnamese: cây tầm gửi
Chinese translation of 'mistletoe'
mistletoe
(ˈmɪsltəu)
n (u)
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槲寄生
(hújìshēng)
mistletoe 是一种灌木，绿色茎叶和蜡白色浆果。在英国和美国，被用作圣诞节装饰物。根据传统，人们在槲寄生下面亲吻。