| NOUN | plant | lobster plant, poinsettia, Christmas star, Christmas flower, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf, Euphorbia pulcherrima | tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers |
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| Meaning | Tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers. | |
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| Synonyms | poinsettia, Christmas star, Christmas flower, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf, Euphorbia pulcherrima | |
| Member of | Euphorbia, genus Euphorbia | type genus of the Euphorbiaceae |
| Broader | spurge | Any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia |
| Spanish | poinsetia | |
| Catalan | ponsètia | |
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