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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A tropical American shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) that has showy, usually scarlet bracts beneath the small yellow flowerlike inflorescences.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A former genus of American apetalous plants of the order Euphorbiaceæ and tribe Euphorbieæ, how included as a section of the vast genus Euphorbia.
  2. n. [lowercase] The Euphorbia (Poinsettia) pulcherrima, a plant much cultivated in conservatories. It is conspicuous for the large scarlet floral leaves surrounding its crowded yellowish cymes of small flowers, and is much used for decoration, especially in churches. Also called Christmas-flower or Easier-flower, in England lobster-flower and Mexican flame-leaf, and in Mexico flora de pasqua.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A plant, Euphorbia pulcherrima, with rather small and insignificant flowers but large brightly coloured leaves.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) A Mexican shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers

Etymologies

  1. After the obsolete genus name Poinsettia, named after Joel Roberts Poinsett (19th-century US minister to Mexico). (Wiktionary)
  2. New Latin, after Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779-1851), American diplomat. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (2)

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  1. Mexican flame leaf
  1. Christmas star

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  1. spurge

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  2. hydrangea
  3. plumbago
  4. hibiscus
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  2. oleander
  3. Impatiens
  4. burnet
  1. yarrow
  2. gadfly
  3. mallow
  4. pandanus
  1. kanda
  2. vapouring
  3. miasmata
  4. ptomaine
  1. syzygium
  2. uniprocessor
  3. camomile
  4. cassie
  1. australe
  2. distillates
  3. fuchsia
  4. manuka

rhymes (21)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Barletta
  2. Barretta
  3. Betta
  4. Damietta
  1. Etta
  2. Henrietta
  3. Lauretta
  4. Loretta
  1. Marietta
  2. Simonetta
  3. Violetta
  4. beretta
  1. betta
  2. keta
  3. lunetta
  4. mete
  1. operetta
  2. palometa
  3. rosetta
  4. vendetta
  1. veta

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. lobster-flower
  2. fire-on-the-mountain
  1. easter-flower
  2. cyathium
  1. latex
  2. monandrous
  1. paint leaf
  2. painted leaf
  1. euphorbia cyathophora
  2. euphorbia heterophylla
  1. mexican fire plant
  2. mole plant
  1. japanese poinsettia
  2. poinsettia

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  1. flower
  1. plant
  1. red

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  • pedalinfaith Completely different from a pointsetta, which, from the sounds of it, must be a mixed breed dog found in a Georgia pound. I suppose those could make nice Christmas presents too, but they require a bit more than watering. Dec 8, 2006

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