mistletoes
- plural of mistletoe.
Example Sentences
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Lectins and phoratoxins — two chemicals found in mistletoes — can “affect the heart, causing low blood pressure and slowed heart rate,” the FDA says.
From Fox News ● Dec. 11, 2018
"If I had my way there'd be mistletoes every day," sings Lane as a tom-tom beat echoes behind her and a pedal steel guitar moans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2014
This airborne parasitism is so successful that mistletoes are thought to have evolved it five separate times on their own.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 21, 2012
But several seedling mistletoes growing close together on the same branch may more truly be said to struggle with each other.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
It’s still Christmas Eve, and there are other mistletoes and other manners.”
From Patty's Success by Wells, Carolyn
