Loranth
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Loranth, in biology, can refer to a plant of the genus
  • Loranthus
    Loranthus
    Loranthus is a genus of mostly parasitic plants that grow on the branches of woody trees. It belongs to the family Loranthaceae, the showy mistletoe family...

    , or of the family which subsumes it, the
  • Loranthaceae
    Loranthaceae
    Loranthaceae is a family of flowering plants, which has been universally recognized by taxonomists. It consists of about 75 genera and 1,000 species of woody plants, many of them hemi-parasites, all of them except three having the mistletoe habit...

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Also,
  • Loranth (Lóránth) is a Hungarian surname.
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