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poinsettia


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Poinsettia  \Poin*set"ti*a\  (poin*s[e^]t"t[i^]*[.a]),  n.  [NL. 
  Named  after  Joel  R.  Poinsett  of  South  Carolina.]  (Bot.) 
  A  Mexican  shrub  ({Euphorbia  pulcherrima})  with  very  large  and 
  conspicuous  vermilion  bracts  below  the  yellowish  flowers. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  poinsettia 
  n  :  tropical  American  plant  having  poisonous  milk  and  showy 
  tapering  usually  scarlet  petallike  leaves  surrounding 
  small  yellow  flowers  [syn:  {Christmas  star},  {Christmas 
  flower},  {lobster  plant},  {Mexican  flameleaf},  {painted 
  leaf},  {Euphorbia  pulcherrima}] 




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