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CHRISTMAS FLOWER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Christmas flower mean?
• CHRISTMAS FLOWER (noun)
The noun CHRISTMAS FLOWER has 1 sense:
1. tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
Familiarity information: CHRISTMAS FLOWER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Christmas flower; Christmas star; Euphorbia pulcherrima; lobster plant; Mexican flameleaf; painted leaf; poinsettia
Hypernyms ("Christmas flower" is a kind of...):
spurge (any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice)
Holonyms ("Christmas flower" is a member of...):
Euphorbia; genus Euphorbia (type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice)
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