Sentence example with the word 'strangler'

strangler

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Definition 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

Last update: September 19, 2015


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Some of the most important plants in the tropical rain-forest are the strangler figs (_Ficus_ sp.)   [Please select]

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Strangler fig trees reach tremendous size and help form the upper forest canopy.   [Please select]

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Phansiagar means a strangler, and they use a phansi, or noose, which they throw over the necks of those whom they intend to plunder, and strangle them.   [Please select]

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That he was an accomplished wrestler--or perhaps a strangler--I divined from the helplessness of the Grand Duke, who lay inert, robbed of every power except that of his tongue.   [Please select]

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