strangler fig
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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