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poinsettia

Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

poinsettia(n = noun.plant) christmas flower, christmas star, euphorbia pulcherrima, lobster plant, mexican flameleaf, painted leaf - tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers; Array

is a member of euphorbia, genus euphorbia

is a kind of spurge

poinsettia, n. [NL. Named after Joel R. Poinsett of South Carolina.].

A Mexican shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers. [1913 Webster]

poinsettia, n. a shrub, Euphorbia pulcherrima, with large showy scarlet or pink bracts surrounding small yellow flowers.

Etymology

mod.L f. J. R. Poinsett, Amer. diplomat d. 1851

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