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strangler (iou)



strangler noun. LME.
[from STRANGLE verb + -ER1.]
A person who or thing which strangles someone or something. LME.
spec.
a. Botany. An epiphytic plant, esp. in a tropical rainforest, which smothers its host tree with twining branches or aerial roots. L19.
b. = CHOKE noun2 7. E20.
Comb.: strangler tree US any of several trees of the genus Clusia (family Guttiferae), which grow as parasites on other trees.