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

Despite doubts thrown on DeSalvo’s claim, Bailey always maintained that DeSalvo was the strangler.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2021

“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

They came to drier soil with strangler figs splitting the rocks.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer