mistletoed

English

Etymology

mistletoe +‎ -ed

Adjective

mistletoed (comparative more mistletoed, superlative most mistletoed)

  1. Covered or overgrown with mistletoe.
    • 1859, The Rambler: Volumes 1-2 (page 128)
      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.
    • 1962, John W. Barrett, Regional silviculture of the United States
      The site class was average, and the stand was heavily mistletoed.
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