noun
tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
• Syn: ↑poinsettia, ↑Christmas star, ↑Christmas flower, ↑lobster plant, ↑painted leaf, ↑Euphorbia pulcherrima
• Hypernyms: ↑spurge
• Member Holonyms: ↑Euphorbia, ↑genus Euphorbia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.