strangler

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He spotted a strangler fig and described how it sprouted from a seed that found purchase in the high crotch of another species, slowly sent roots to the ground, and ultimately choked its host.

From National Geographic • Jan. 23, 2024

Driving west from El Hormiguero toward the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, the road wends through ceibas, strangler figs, and sapodillas, a tree prized since Maya times for its chicle gum.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 11, 2023

Doubts about the case lingered for more than 40 years as legal experts and writers insisted that Mr. DeSalvo was not the strangler.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2021

She had a special animus for English ivy, that invasive strangler of native trees.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2016

I must be closer to her if I am to get the strangler into her cup, yet howl Patchface was capering about as the maester made his slow way around the table to Davos Seaworth.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin