| 单词 | strangler fig |
| 释义 | strangler fig (once / 1477414 pages) n WORD FAMILY strangler fig: strangler figs USAGE EXAMPLESMany were wreathed in strangler figs, called matapalos, or tree killers.” The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Strangler figs sprout in the branches of another tree, drop their roots to the forest floor, and slowly envelop their host. The New Yorker(Aug 10, 2016) The strangler fig grows around palm trees, he said, and ultimately kills the palm. Washington Times(Jun 21, 2015) 1n 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|Hyper Ficus aurea, Florida strangler fig, golden fig, wild fig fig tree any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature 2n a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers Syn|Hyper Clusia major, Clusia rosea, pitch apple strangler, strangler tree 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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