Christmas flower

Christmas flower
noun
tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
Hypernyms: ↑spurge
Member Holonyms: ↑Euphorbia, ↑genus Euphorbia

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noun
Usage: usually capitalized C
3. : a poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima) of Mexico

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Christmas rose or Christmas flower noun
An evergreen plant (Helleborus niger) that bears cup-shaped white flowers in winter or early spring
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Main Entry:Christmas

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Christmas flower,
1. = Christmas rose. (Cf.Christmas rose)
2. = poinsettia. (Cf.poinsettia)

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