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Strangler Fig

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Noun

1. ficus aurea, florida strangler fig, golden fig, strangler fig, wild fig

a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas

2. clusia major, clusia rosea, pitch apple, strangler fig

a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Strangler Fig

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n.
Any of several fig trees that grow at first as epiphytes on another tree and then send roots down to the ground around the trunk of the host tree, especially Ficus aurea, of southern Florida and the West Indies.

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