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EUPHORBIA PULCHERRIMA

Dictionary entry overview: What does Euphorbia pulcherrima mean?

• EUPHORBIA PULCHERRIMA (noun)
The noun EUPHORBIA PULCHERRIMA has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: EUPHORBIA PULCHERRIMA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• EUPHORBIA PULCHERRIMA (noun)

Sense 1

Euphorbia pulcherrima ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Christmas flower; Christmas star; Euphorbia pulcherrima; lobster plant; Mexican flameleaf; poinsettia; painted leaf

Hypernyms ("Euphorbia pulcherrima" is a kind of...):

spurge (any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice)

Holonyms ("Euphorbia pulcherrima" is a member of...):

Euphorbia; genus Euphorbia (type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice)

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