strangler Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree
    strangler tree.
  2. noun someone who kills by strangling
    garroter; garrotter; choker; throttler.

WordNet


Stran"gler noun
Definitions
  1. One who, or that which, strangles. "The very strangler of their amity." Shak.

Webster 1913