Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun strangler_fig

2 senses of strangler fig

Sense 1
golden fig, Florida strangler fig, strangler fig, wild fig, Ficus aurea -- (a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas)
       => fig tree -- (any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature)

Sense 2
pitch apple, strangler fig, Clusia rosea, Clusia major -- (a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers)
       => 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)