mistletoe

English - Turkish

Definition of mistletoe in English Turkish dictionary

Eski bir Noel geleneğine göre, eğer bir kadın dikilen ökseotunun altında dururken yakalanırsa, bir adam onu öpebilir. - According to an old Christmas custom, if a woman is caught standing under hanging mistletoe, a man may kiss her.

Ökseotu genelde Noel dekorasyonu olarak kullanılır. - Mistletoe is commonly used as a Christmas decoration.

ökseot

Ökseotu genelde Noel dekorasyonu olarak kullanılır. - Mistletoe is commonly used as a Christmas decoration.

i., bot. ökseotu, burç, göğce

Viscum albüm

burç

ökse otu

Onu ökse otunun altında öptüm. - I kissed him under the mistletoe.

Onu öpmek için bir mazeret olarak ökse otu kullandım. - I used the mistletoe as an excuse to kiss him.

göğce

mistletoe family

ökseotu familyası

american mistletoe

amerikan ökseotu

English - English

Definition of mistletoe in English English dictionary: Any of several parasitic evergreen plants with white berries that grow in the crowns of oaks, apple trees and other trees; A sprig of these plants used as a Christmas decoration; Any of several parasitic evergreen plants with white berries that grows on oaks, apple trees and other trees; American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe; 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; 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; Mistletoe is a plant with pale berries that grows on the branches of some trees. Mistletoe is used in Britain and the United States as a Christmas decoration, and people often kiss under it. a plant with small white berries, which grows on trees. It is traditional to kiss people under a piece of mistletoe at Christmas. Any of many species of semiparasitic green plants of the families Loranthaceae and Viscaceae, especially those of the genera Viscum, Phoradendron, and Arceuthobium, all members of the Viscaceae family. V. album, the traditional mistletoe of literature and Christmas celebrations, is found throughout Eurasia. This yellowish evergreen bush (2-3 ft, or 0.6-0.9 m, long) droops on the branch of a host tree. The thickly crowded, forking branches bear small leathery leaves and yellowish flowers, which produce waxy-white berries containing poisonous pulp. A modified root penetrates the bark of the host tree and forms tubes through which water and nutrients pass from the host to the slow-growing but persistent parasite. The North American counterpart is P. serotinum. Mistletoe was formerly believed to have magical and medicinal powers, and kissing under hanging mistletoe was said to lead inevitably to marriage; The term mistletoe is used for both Viscum album (European mistletoe) and Phoradendron leucarpum (Eastern mistletoe); {i} green plant with yellowish flowers and waxy white berries that grows parasitically on other trees (native to Europe, northern Africa and Asia); North American shrub that resembles the mistletoe plant; sprig of mistletoe used as a Christmas decoration (under which people customarily kiss); A parasitic evergreen plant of Europe (Viscum album), bearing a glutinous fruit; shrub of central and southeastern Europe; partially parasitic on beeches, chestnuts and oaks Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe; missel; mistle
mistletoe cactus: a plant of the genus Rhipsalis
mistletoe cactus: A leafless, epiphytic tropical American cactus (Rhipsalis baccifera)
mistletoe fig: shrub or small tree often grown as a houseplant having foliage like mistletoe
European mistletoe: a parasitic evergreen plant (Viscum album) with white berries which grows on oaks, apple and other trees
American mistletoe: small herb with scalelike leaves on reddish-brown stems and berrylike fruits; parasitic on spruce and larch trees
American mistletoe: the traditional mistletoe of Christmas in America: grows on deciduous trees and can severely weaken the host plant
The mistletoe: misseldine
american mistletoe: small herb with scalelike leaves on reddish-brown stems and berrylike fruits; parasitic on spruce and larch trees the traditional mistletoe of Christmas in America: grows on deciduous trees and can severely weaken the host plant
mistletoes: plural of mistletoe

mistletoe

Hyphenation

mis·tle·toe

Turkish pronunciation

mîsıltō

Pronunciation

/ˈməsəlˌtō/ /ˈmɪsəlˌtoʊ/

Etymology

() Old English misteltān, from mistel ‘mistletoe’ + tān ‘twig’. Compare mistle.

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