strangler fig

 

strangler fig (plural strangler figs)

1. Any of a number of kinds of figs (genus Ficus) that sprout on branches of other trees and crowd them out as they mature.

• (fig that strangles trees): Ficus altissima, Ficus aurea (Florida strangler fig), Ficus benghalensis, Ficus benjamina, Ficus burtt-davyi, Ficus citrifolia, Ficus craterostoma, Ficus tinctoria, Ficus macrophylla, Ficus obliqua, Ficus virens, Ficus watkinsiana, Ficus henneana

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