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UK
/stɹˈæŋɡlɐ/
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[ US /ˈstɹæŋɡɫɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈstɹæŋɡɫɝ/ ]
NOUN
- an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree
- someone who kills by strangling
How To Use strangler In A Sentence
- White-knuckled, she gripped the clacking needles so ferociously she could have knitted the booties in gale force winds and they still would have turned out ankle-stranglers. First
- Emergent species like the strangler fig (Ficus dugandii) may reach heights of over 60 m while very abundant epiphytes such as Araceae sp and Cyclanthaceae sp. cover the lower parts of tree trunks and ferns help make up the dense understory. Western Ecuador moist forests
- A strangler fig (Ficus citrifolia) photographed in Kalimantan, Borneo. Biological diversity in Sundaland
- While Kas's hands were busy trying to pry the stranglers off his neck, his legs swung free.
- The festival also boasts the world premiere of American director Chuck Parello's serial killer movie Hillside Strangler, a true-crime tale of druggy decadence in 70s California.
- A strangler is a work, along with a couple of mobsters named Flash and Dip. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Double Z - Maxwell Grant
- The banyan replaced the Hanging Elm in Washington Square Park as my favorite tree, because it isn't so much a tree as a tree monster, a macabre tangle of branches oozing to the ground so as to support ever more branches, threatening to squeeze to death anything in its path, a tendency that earned it the cute nickname "strangler fig. Aloha? More Like Boo!
- Copyright Wars denounced certain copyright owners who once analogized a copying technology to a "strangler" -- and then six times accused copyright owners of trying to "kill, The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog
- On the day of the murder, Albert DeSalvothe man who would eventually confess in lurid detail to the Strangler's crimesis also in Belmont, working as a carpenter at the Jungers 'home. A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger: Book summary
- Reveal your secret nickname (mine's "strangler") and much other funkiness over at Cowgrass. com Random Funny Stuff - UFies.org