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

It includes a rare parasitic fungus nicknamed the strangler, due to its ability to take over other fungi.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2022

“It was my job to deal with the number of psychiatrists who called us to say, ‘I have the strangler in my practice,’ ” Mr. Chayet told The Eagle-Tribune, a Massachusetts newspaper, in 2013.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2017

In the middle of the day she tied up to an immense strangler fig and clambered over it to reach land.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer