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FALSE MISTLETOE

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Meaning:

American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe

Synonyms:

false mistletoe; mistletoe

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("false mistletoe" is a kind of...):

parasitic plant (plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "false mistletoe"):

American mistletoe; Phoradendron flavescens; Phoradendron serotinum (the traditional mistletoe of Christmas in America: grows on deciduous trees and can severely weaken the host plant)

Holonyms ("false mistletoe" is a member of...):

genus Phoradendron; Phoradendron (any of various American parasitic plants similar to Old World mistletoe: false mistletoe)

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