Mistletoe

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A Eurasian parasitic shrub (Viscum album) having leathery evergreen leaves and waxy white berries.
  • n. Any of several American parasitic shrubs, such as Phoradendron flavescens of eastern North America.
  • n. A sprig of mistletoe, often used as a Christmas decoration.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of several parasitic evergreen plants with white berries that grow in the crowns of oaks, apple trees and other trees.
  • n. A sprig of these plants used as a Christmas decoration.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A parasitic evergreen plant of Europe (Viscum album), bearing a glutinous fruit. When found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime is prepared from its fruit.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A European plant, Viscum album, of the natural order Loranthaceæ, growing parasitically on various trees.
  • n. A plant of some other species of Viscum, or of one of the genera Loranthus, Phoradendron, and Arceuthobium, their species almost all having the same parasitic habit.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. shrub of central and southeastern Europe; partially parasitic on beeches, chestnuts and oaks
  • n. American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe
  • n. Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas
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    misletoe    misseltoe    mistleto   
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