(uncountable) A sprig of one such plant used as a Christmas decoration, associated with the custom that a man may kiss any woman standing beneath it.
mistletoe
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for mistletoe.
Editorial note
So what birds eat now is mistletoe, spreading it from tree to tree by wiping their beaks onto the bark of the tree, leaving mistletoe seeds there.
Quick take
(uncountable) A sprig of one such plant used as a Christmas decoration, associated with the custom that a man may kiss any woman standing beneath it.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of mistletoe gathered in one view.
(countable, uncountable) Any of numerous hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales with white berries that grow in the crowns of apple trees, oaks, and other trees, such as the European mistletoe (Viscum album) and American mistletoe or eastern mistletoe (Phoradendron leucarpum).
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for mistletoe.
noun
(uncountable) A sprig of one such plant used as a Christmas decoration, associated with the custom that a man may kiss any woman standing beneath it.
See also: viscum-album, false-mistletoe, loranthus-europaeus
noun
(countable, uncountable) Any of numerous hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales with white berries that grow in the crowns of apple trees, oaks, and other trees, such as the European mistletoe (Viscum album) and American mistletoe or eastern mistletoe (Phoradendron leucarpum).
See also: viscum-album, false-mistletoe, loranthus-europaeus
Example sentences
So what birds eat now is mistletoe, spreading it from tree to tree by wiping their beaks onto the bark of the tree, leaving mistletoe seeds there.
It's not the number of trees that make it a grove but the number of druids cutting mistletoe.
In my non expert opinion, advising people to consume B17 (cyanide after crushing it) and Mistletoe is extremely risky.
To clear mistletoe from that many trees is fairly expensive so owners usually don't do it, and we have alleys and alleys of trees full of mistletoe.
I remember my neighbor using glue made from mistletoe berries to catch small colorful birds (80s eastern europe).
There are many parasitic plants, like the well-known mistletoe, which eat other plants.
If you see some mistletoe up on a branch, that's a parasitic plant.
Unlike mistletoe, some of the other parasitic plants have given up completely on phototrophy, depending only on the nutrients sucked from the host plant.
I would entirely drop anything that involves potentially fatal treatments such as poisons (cyanide, mistletoe).
Our one collects mistletoe and hands it out after Christmas service to acknowledge the old ways, and says so with a smile while passing it out!
Slightly off-topic, but because of farming we also started to have problem with mistletoe.
With Pandoc, you only get notified at the start of an element, not the end which probably complicates it a bit more than Mistletoe would have.
Quote examples
If you think you've talked me into buying you "kiss under mistletoe" you're wrong.
I agree with your comments about the large subreddits, but I also agree with Mistletoe that even many niche subreddits (or at least "midsized" subreddits) suffer from the same moderation problem.
But my head was built with paradox absorbing crumple zones." ―Robot Santa Claus >"Your mistletoe is no match for my TOW missile!" ―Robot Santa Claus >"Time to get jolly on your naughty asses!" ―Robot Santa Claus >It is unknown how Robot Santa enacts surveillance upon the entire population of Earth but it is probable that he uses "Mom's Old Fashioned Surveillance Unit".
Proper noun examples
Christmas Trees, wreaths, the Yule log, Mistletoe..
Mistletoe would have worked too (I need to create custom fences/markup for a few features) but I wanted to see if I could do it with Pandoc.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use mistletoe in a sentence?
So what birds eat now is mistletoe, spreading it from tree to tree by wiping their beaks onto the bark of the tree, leaving mistletoe seeds there.
What does mistletoe mean?
(uncountable) A sprig of one such plant used as a Christmas decoration, associated with the custom that a man may kiss any woman standing beneath it.
What part of speech is mistletoe?
mistletoe is commonly used as noun.