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/pˌɛrəsˈɪtɪk plænt/ Listen

Parasitic plant

noun

Plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it.

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Etymology of 'Parasitic plant'

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"Parasitic plant" Quotes from Famous Books

... the same time praying that God would render his gift prosperous to those to whom he had given it." They drink the water in which it has been infused, and think it a remedy for all diseases. The mistletoe is a parasitic plant, and is not always nor often found on the oak, so that when it is found it is ...

— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch

... noble tendency to climb, Yet weak at the same time, Faith is a kind of parasitic plant, That grasps the nearest stem with tendril-rings; And as the climate and the soil may grant, So is the sort of tree to which it clings. Consider then, before, like Hurlothrumbo You aim your club at any creed on earth, That, by the simple accident of birth, You ...

— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood

Words linked to "Parasitic plant" : hemiparasite, false mistletoe, flame tree, Loranthaceae, Nuytsia floribunda, semiparasite, Viscum album, Christmas tree, Arceuthobium pusillum, parasite yew, Comandra pallida, fire tree, mistletoe, parasite, Pyrularia pubera, Parasitaxus ustus, buffalo nut, mistletoe family, bastard toadflax, Buckleya distichophylla, buckleya, American mistletoe, family Loranthaceae, Loranthus europaeus, rabbitwood, Old World mistletoe