mistletoe / ˈmɪs əlˌtoʊ /

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mistletoe 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a European plant, Viscum album, having yellowish flowers and white berries, growing parasitically on various trees, used in Christmas decorations.
  2. any of several other related, similar plants, as Phoradendron serotinum, of the U.S.: the state flower of Oklahoma.

更多mistletoe例句

  1. “We started joking about researchers falling off trees in the attempt to get their hands on mistletoe plants,” Senkler wrote in an email to Quanta.
  2. Holiday-season traditions stretching back for centuries have linked wintertime romance to decorative sprigs of mistletoe.
  3. In fact, “mistletoe might teach us a lesson on how to survive at energy-limiting conditions,” Senkler said.
  4. Eventually, the mistletoe bush grows, blooms, and forms berries, and the cycle begins anew.
  5. In a dramatic twist on mistletoe reproduction, their seeds explode, literally.
  6. “Mistletoe infections can be a symptom of larger problems,” notes Shaw.
  7. Mistletoe is basically a vampire—but one of those an anti-hero type vampires.
  8. Mistletoes infections can kill individual trees and stands of trees, and most mistletoe species attack specific tree species.
  9. Fieldfares and Mistletoe Thrushes usually sell at fourpence each, the rest at fourpence a couple.
  10. And he said, in a very low voice, 'I didn't dare to kiss you under the mistletoe.'
  11. The Mistletoe was a sore puzzle to our ancestors, almost as great a mystery as the Fern.
  12. The mystery attaching to the Mistletoe arose from the ignorance as to its production.
  13. In my dreams last night were all sorts of Christmas things—home and mistletoe and you under it, my love.