1) Aerophyte 2) Air plant 3) British slang for a necktie, 4) Epiphyte 5) Epiphytic plant 6) Infamous Boston fiend 7) Strangler tree 1) Choker 2) Garroter 3) Garrotter 4) Throttler 
a form of dismissal whereby a batsman, in trying to play a glance very fine to a leg-side ball, gets an inside edge which is caught by the wicket-keeper.
• (n.) One who, or that which, strangles.
Stran'gler noun One who, or that which, strangles. 'The very strangler of their amity.' Shak. 
Strangler is British slang for an enviably lucky person.
[n] - an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree
a plant that begins life as an epiphyte in the canopy of a forest and sends its roots down the trunk of a host tree and into the substrate. The roots may form a thick woody net around the host's trunk, but it is apparently the foliage of the strangler that eventually kills the host by blocking sunlight from the latter's leaves. A type of growthform...
strangler tree noun an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree