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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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