| Pronunciation: | | str'angglur
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| Matching Terms: | | strangle, strangle hold, strangleable, strangled, stranglehold, strangler fig, strangler tree, strangles
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- [n] someone who kills by strangling
- [n] 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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| | Synonyms: | | choker, garroter, garrotter, strangler tree, throttler |
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| | See Also: | | aerophyte, air plant, Clusia major, Clusia rosea, epiphyte, epiphytic plant, killer, pitch apple, slayer, strangler fig |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Stran"gler\, n.
One who, or that which, strangles. ``The very strangler of
their amity.'' --Shak.
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