american mistletoe

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1. small herb with scalelike leaves on reddish-brown stems and berrylike fruits; parasitic on spruce and larch trees (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	parasitic plant,
definition	:	plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	arceuthobium, genus arceuthobium,
definition	:	genus of chiefly American plants parasitic on conifers (noun.plant)

2. the traditional mistletoe of Christmas in America: grows on deciduous trees and can severely weaken the host plant (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	false mistletoe, mistletoe,
definition	:	American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe (noun.plant)