Mistletoe synonyms

mĭs'əl-tō'

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blackthorn (related)
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false mistletoe
American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe
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bough (related)
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Viscum album
Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas
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sloe (related)
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loquat (related)
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mountain-ash (related)
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Loranthus europaeus
shrub of central and southeastern Europe; partially parasitic on beeches, chestnuts and oaks
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ceratonia (related)
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Old World mistletoe
Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas
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Mistletoe Sentence Examples

  • The mistletoe is parasitic both on deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs.

  • The mistletoe so extensively used in England at Christmas is largely derived from the apple orchards of Normandy; a quantity is also sent from the apple orchards of Herefordshire.

  • According to this writer the Druids held the mistletoe in the highest veneration.

  • The mistletoe figures also in Scandinavian legend as having furnished the material of the arrow with which Balder (the sun-god) was slain by the blind god Hoder.

  • The leaves in the bud are either placed simply in apposition, as in the mistletoe, or they are folded or rolled up longitudinally or laterally, giving rise to different kinds of vernation, as delineated in figs.

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