STRANGLER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who kills by strangling

Synonyms:

choker; garroter; garrotter; strangler; throttler

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("strangler" is a kind of...):

killer; slayer (someone who causes the death of a person or animal)

Derivation:

strangle (kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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; strangler tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("strangler" is a kind of...):

aerophyte; air plant; epiphyte; epiphytic plant (plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "strangler"):

Clusia major; Clusia rosea; pitch apple; strangler fig (a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers)