mistletoe

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmɪsəltəʊ/

Noun

mistletoe (plural mistletoes)

1. Any of several parasitic evergreen plants with white berries that grow in the crowns of oaks, apple trees and other trees.
2. A sprig of these plants used as a Christmas decoration.

Usage notes

The term mistletoe is used for both Viscum album (European mistletoe) and Phoradendron leucarpum (eastern mistletoe).

Derived terms

• mistletoebird

Translations

either species of such evergreen plant

• Albanian: veshtull (sq)
• Arabic: نبات طفيلي (ar)
• Aromanian: vãscu (rup), vescu (rup)
• Catalan: vesc (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 槲寄生 (cmn) (hújìshēng)

• Czech: jmelí (cs) n
• Danish: mistelten
• Dutch: maretak m, vogellijm m, mistel m
• Esperanto: blanka visko (eo)
• Finnish: misteli (fi)
• French: gui (fr) m
• Friulian: visc m
• German: Mistel (de) f
• Greek: ιξός (el) (ixós)
• Hungarian: fagyöngy (hu)
• Icelandic: mistilteinn (is) m
• Italian: vischio (it) m
• Japanese: 宿木 (ja) (やどりぎ, yadorigi)
• Korean: 겨우살이 (ko) (gyeousariryu)
• Latin: viscum (la)

• Norwegian: misteltein (no) m
• Occitan: vesc (oc) m
• Old English: misteltān m, mistel m
• Persian: دارواش (fa) (dârwâš)
• Polish: jemioła (pl)
• Portuguese: visco (pt) m
• Romanian: vâsc (ro)
• Russian: омела (ru) (oméla) f
• Sardinian: biscu (sc), viscu (sc)
• Scots: messeldeu
• Scottish Gaelic: uil-ìoc (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: имела (sh) f, božikovina (sh) f
• Spanish: muérdago m
• Swedish: mistel (sv)
• Tagalog: ligas (tl)
• Turkish: ökseotu (tr)
• Ukrainian: омела (uk) (oméla) f
• Welsh: uchelwydd, uchelwydd (cy) m

See also

• European mistletoe
• eastern mistletoe