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Christmas flower
DEFINITIONS OF:
Christmas flower
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n
tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
Synonyms:
Christmas star
,
Euphorbia pulcherrima
,
Mexican flameleaf
,
lobster plant
,
painted leaf
,
poinsettia
Type of:
spurge
any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice
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