Definition of "loranthus" []

• A genus of dicotyledonous apetalous plants, the type of the natural order Loranthaceæ and tribe Eulorantheæ. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "This parasitical plant has a trailing stem, not unlike the common ivy, but not so woody, by which it attaches itself to the trunks of trees, and sucks the moisture which their bark derives from the lichens and other cryptogamia, but without drawing nourishment from the tree itself, like the misletoe and loranthus."
• "The coffee trees suffer much from rain at the time of flowering, as well as from the want of water for artificial irrigation, and also from a parasitic plant, a new species of loranthus, which clings to the branches."
• "We observed the poplar-gum again in the open forest, and a fine drooping loranthus growing on it."