mistletoe

• You notice in the rear the leaves of bananas that grow there throughout the entire year The Chairman: I have noticed that the mistletoe was a bad parasite on the pecans in some regions. —  Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912
• Perhaps we shall have to use our home-grown; but then, mistletoe is mistletoe, and one is n't asking one's self what kind of mistletoe hangs overhead when one chances to get under the chandelier. —  The Hills of Hingham
• I remember a friend who tried impatiently to explain the word "mistletoe" to a German, and cried at last, despairing, "Well, you know holly--mistletoe's the opposite!" —  The Victorian Age in Literature
• Kissing under the mistletoe was all very well for boys and girls--but for a mature bachelor of thirty-nine and an "old maid" of thirty-five, these uncouth and calf-like gambollings lacked dignity. —  The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
• Rare as it was, when found the mistletoe was the object of a careful ritual. —  The Religion of the Ancient Celts

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