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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