| strangler fig n. An evergreen tree (Ficus aurea) of southern Florida and the West Indies, having elliptic leaves and yellow fruit. [From the fact that it strangles its host.] |
| strangler fig | |
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| 1. | 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] |
| 2. | a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers [syn: pitch apple] |