mistletoe
noun
a European plant, Viscum album, having yellowish flowers and white berries, growing parasitically on various trees, used in Christmas decorations.
mistletoes
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pluralof mistletoe.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
The most common of the higher parasitic plants damaging timber trees are mistletoes.
From The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing by Samuel J. Record
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 Robert Ezra Park
