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# mistletoe

«mistletoe» in Mova's school dictionary: **a plant with white berries that grows on the branches of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

Mistletoe is a plant with white berries that grows on the branches of trees; people hang it up at Christmas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistletoe/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a plant that grows on trees in some tales, sometimes linked with magic or poison

### examples

- We hung mistletoe over the door at Christmas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistletoe/#x1)
- Mistletoe grows high in the oak tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistletoe/#x2)
- The white berries of mistletoe are not good to eat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistletoe/#x3)
- The fairy hid a sprig of mistletoe in her basket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistletoe/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mistletoe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistletoe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.