strangler

From strangle + -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɹæŋɡ(ə)lə/

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strangler (plural stranglers)

1. Someone who strangles, especially who murders by strangling.
2. An epiphyte whose aerial roots eventually strangle the tree on which it grows.

• frog-strangler
• toad-strangler
• turd strangler
• strangler fig