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mistletoed

mistletoed adjective: covered or overgrown with mistletoe.

Adjective

mistletoed (comparative more mistletoed, superlative most mistletoed)

  1. Covered or overgrown with mistletoe.
    • It did not admit of alteration for the better or the worse, of reform or improvement, any more than you could change some tortuously branched, gnarled, mistletoed, and ivy-crowned oak.1859, The Rambler, volumes 1-2, page 128
    • The site class was average, and the stand was heavily mistletoed.1962, John W. Barrett, Regional silviculture of the United States

Forms of mistletoed

comparativemore mistletoed
superlativemost mistletoed

Origin of mistletoed

From mistletoe + -ed.

Questions about mistletoed

What does mistletoed mean?
Mistletoed means covered or overgrown with mistletoe.
What part of speech is mistletoed?
Mistletoed is an adjective.

Words near mistletoed in the dictionary

  1. mistletoe cactus
  2. mistletoe fig
  3. mistletoe figs
  4. mistletoebird
  5. mistletoebirds
  6. mistletoed
  7. mistletoeing
  8. mistletoes
  9. mistletos
  10. Mistley
  11. mistlike

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