Mistletoe is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MISTLETOE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a Eurasian evergreen shrub, with leathery leaves, yellowish flowers, and waxy white berries, grows as a partial parasite on various trees, also MISLETOE
• a leathery-leaved parasitic plant which grows on apple, oak, and other broadleaf trees and bears white glutinous berries in winter.
• evergreen plant with white berries growing as a parasite on trees
• A parasitic evergreen plant of Europe (Viscum album), bearing a glutinous fruit. When found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime is prepared from its fruit.
• American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe
• Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas
• shrub of central and southeastern Europe; partially parasitic on beeches, chestnuts and oaks
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a European semiparasitic green shrub (Viscum album of the family Loranthaceae, the mistletoe family) with thick leaves, small yellowish flowers, and waxy-white glutinous berries; broadly; any of various plants of the mistletoe family (as of an American genus Phoradendron) resembling the true mistletoe

Words related to MISTLETOE

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Words that contain MISTLETOE

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How to use MISTLETOE in a sentence

• Some parasites with green leaves, like the mistletoe, take the crude sap from the host-plant and assimilate it in their own green leaves.
• There was not a tree in the yard that did not have mushrooms growing around its foot, or a bunch of mistletoe hanging in its branches.
• But nothing pleased the eye of the traveller so much as the holly-trees, with their glossy evergreen foliage, red berries, and tufts of verdant mistletoe.
• The ancient boughs that lace together Along the stream, and hang far forth, Strange with green mistletoe, betray A dreamy contrast to the North.
• The mistletoe, contemptible from its size and weakness, was alone neglected, and of it no oath of immunity was demanded.
• But, being shot with the mistletoe arrow, it inflicted a fatal wound, and Balder died.
• How foolish and inopportune that mistletoe looked now.
• They knew of our coming, and had swept the church and grounds clean, and ornamented the altar with mistletoe.
• The mistletoe, in its place of honor among the evergreens, brought forth many expressions of admiration.
• In the arroyo beyond the willow wall, a quail called his evening call, and was answered by his mate from the top of the bank under the mistletoe oak.
• Amidst her long, silky black hair she wore a crown or chaplet of artificial mistletoe, and bore in her hand a rod of ebony tipped with silver.
• Descending again, she found Jim Dawlish fixing a piece of mistletoe over the parlour door, and smiled at his occupation.
• The mistletoe, pointed out by its very peculiar appearance and manner of growth, must have struck powerfully on the imaginations of a superstitious people.
• The little sprig of Mistletoe shot through the air, pierced the heart of Balder, and in a moment the beautiful god lay dead upon the field.
• They had spent the morning in decorating the old church, in pricking holly about the house, and in making a mistletoe bush.
• It is no wonder that the mistletoe has a special place in Christmas decorations, for it is associated with both Teutonic myth and Celtic ritual.
• His head was encircled by a crown of holly and mistletoe.
• The mistletoe is found in several counties in England, but the bulk of that which we have now at Christ-tide comes from Brittany.
• The Druids gathered it with as much reverence as they paid to the Mistletoe.
• Whatsoever mistletoe, then, groweth on such a tree they hold it for a heaven-sent sign, and count that tree as chosen by their God himself.
• A contrast is furnished by the delicate sprays of the mistletoe growing upon the limbs of the oak, elm, and apple trees.
• There stands the Mistletoe slender and delicate, blooming high above the ground.
• At the hotel I put up holly and mistletoe, and produced from my trunks a real Christmas pudding that my mother had made.
• Holly and mistletoe and cedar were being put about the rooms of the big house to welcome home the boys and girls from school.
• My father was in the highest of spirits, and would have the house decorated with holly and mistletoe.
• Covered with shining tufts of mistletoe, the branches of the neglected fruit-trees gave no sign of fruit.

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