strangler tree   (TTS Sound)

The strangler_tree has 1 Senses.

• strangler, strangler tree
• an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree
• 着生のつる植物か高木で、気根が支持木の幹の下方へ広がり、その周りに癒着して最終的には木を絞め殺す