PARASITIC PLANT
Dictionary entry overview: What does parasitic plant mean?
• PARASITIC PLANT (noun)
The noun PARASITIC PLANT has 1 sense:
1. plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it
Familiarity information: PARASITIC PLANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PARASITIC PLANT (noun)
Meaning:
Plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("parasitic plant" is a kind of...):
parasite (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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parasitic plant"):
Parasitaxus ustus; parasite yew (rare and endangered monoecious parasitic conifer of New Caledonia; parasitic on Falcatifolium taxoides)
false mistletoe; mistletoe (American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe)
mistletoe; Old World mistletoe; Viscum album (Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas)
Christmas tree; fire tree; flame tree; Nuytsia floribunda (a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses)
American mistletoe; Arceuthobium pusillum (small herb with scalelike leaves on reddish-brown stems and berrylike fruits; parasitic on spruce and larch trees)
Loranthus europaeus; mistletoe (shrub of central and southeastern Europe; partially parasitic on beeches, chestnuts and oaks)
family Loranthaceae; Loranthaceae; mistletoe family (in some classification includes Viscaceae: parasitic or hemiparasitic shrublets or shrubs or small trees of tropical and temperate regions; attach to hosts by haustoria)
buffalo nut; Pyrularia pubera; rabbitwood (shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes)
bastard toadflax; Comandra pallida (woody creeping parasite of western North America having numerous thick powdery leaves and panicles of small dull-white flowers)
buckleya; Buckleya distichophylla (parasitic shrub of the eastern United States having opposite leaves and insignificant greenish flowers followed by oily dull green olivelike fruits)
hemiparasite; semiparasite (a parasitic plant that contains some chlorophyll and therefore is capable of photosynthesis)
