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Poinsettia

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Noun

1. christmas flower, christmas star, euphorbia pulcherrima, lobster plant, mexican flameleaf, painted leaf, poinsettia

tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Poinsettia

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noun
a euphorbiaceous shrub, Euphorbia (or Poinsettia) pulcherrima, of Mexico and Central America, widely cultivated for its showy scarlet bracts, which resemble petals

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Poinsettia

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noun
a Mexican and Central American plant (Euphorbia pulcherrima) of the spurge family, with yellow flowers surrounded by tapering red leaves resembling petals

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Poinsettia

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n.
A shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) native to Mexico that has a cluster of small yellow flowers surrounded by showy, usually scarlet petal-like bracts.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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