Usually means: Colorful plant popular at Christmas.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. poinsettia: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. poinsettia: Merriam-Webster
  3. poinsettia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. poinsettia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. poinsettia: Collins English Dictionary
  6. poinsettia: Vocabulary.com
  7. Poinsettia, poinsettia: Wordnik
  8. poinsettia: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. poinsettia: Wiktionary
  10. poinsettia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. poinsettia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. poinsettia: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Poinsettia, poinsettia: Dictionary.com
  14. poinsettia: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. poinsettia: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Poinsettia (cocktail), Poinsettia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Poinsettia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. poinsettia: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. poinsettia: Rhymezone
  20. Poinsettia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. poinsettia: FreeDictionary.org
  22. poinsettia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. poinsettia: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. poinsettia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Poinsettia: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  3. poinsettia: Medical dictionary
  4. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Poinsettia: Botanical Name listing of Plants

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▸ noun:  A plant, Euphorbia pulcherrima, with rather small and insignificant flowers surrounded by large bright red leaves; native to Mexico and Central America and widely cultivated as a garden plant.

Similar:
Christmas flower, Christmas star, euphorbia pulcherrima, lobster plant, mexican flameleaf, painted leaf, poinsetta, pointsettia, fire plant, poinciana, more...

Opposite:
non-poinsettia, anti-poinsettia

Types:
Christmas star, lobster claw, Mexican fireplant, winter rose, flame-leaf, Easter cactus, more...

Phrases:
japanese poinsettia, poinsettia strain, poinsettia pulcherrima, more...

Adjectives:
red, scarlet, potted, wild, white, beautiful, large, huge, big, crimson, bright
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Similar:
Christmas flower, Christmas star, euphorbia pulcherrima, lobster plant, mexican flameleaf, painted leaf, poinsetta, pointsettia, fire plant, poinciana, more...

Opposite:
non-poinsettia, anti-poinsettia

Types:
Christmas star, lobster claw, Mexican fireplant, winter rose, flame-leaf, Easter cactus, more...

Phrases:
japanese poinsettia, poinsettia strain, poinsettia pulcherrima, more...

Adjectives:
red, scarlet, potted, wild, white, beautiful, large, huge, big, crimson, bright



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