strangler

Other forms: stranglers

Definitions of strangler

1. noun

   someone who kills by strangling
   synonyms: choker, garroter, garrotter, throttler

   type of:

   killer, slayer

   someone who causes the death of a person or animal
2. 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
   synonyms: strangler tree

   types:

   Clusia major, Clusia rosea, pitch apple, strangler fig

   a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers

   type of:

   aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte, epiphytic plant

   a plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it