parasitic plant
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1. plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | parasite, |
| definition | : | an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | parasitaxus ustus, parasite yew, |
| definition | : | rare and endangered monoecious parasitic conifer of New Caledonia; parasitic on Falcatifolium taxoides (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | buckleya, buckleya distichophylla, |
| definition | : | parasitic shrub of the eastern United States having opposite leaves and insignificant greenish flowers followed by oily dull green olivelike fruits (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | bastard toadflax, comandra pallida, |
| definition | : | woody creeping parasite of western North America having numerous thick powdery leaves and panicles of small dull-white flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | buffalo nut, pyrularia pubera, rabbitwood, |
| definition | : | shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | family loranthaceae, loranthaceae, mistletoe family, |
| definition | : | in some classification includes Viscaceae: parasitic or hemiparasitic shrublets or shrubs or small trees of tropical and temperate regions; attach to hosts by haustoria (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | loranthus europaeus, mistletoe, |
| definition | : | shrub of central and southeastern Europe; partially parasitic on beeches, chestnuts and oaks (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | mistletoe, old world mistletoe, viscum album, |
| definition | : | Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hemiparasite, semiparasite, |
| definition | : | a parasitic plant that contains some chlorophyll and therefore is capable of photosynthesis (noun.plant) |
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