Euphorbia pulcherrima : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Euphorbia pulcherrima	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Euphorbia pulcherrima
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Euphorbia pulcherrima n tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers Synonym(s): poinsettia, Christmas star, Christmas flower, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf, Euphorbia pulcherrima
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Poinsettia \[d8]Poinset"tia\ (poins[ecr]t"t[icr][adot]), n. [NL. Named after Joel R. Poinsett of South Carolina.] (Bot.) A Mexican shrub ({Euphorbia pulcherrima}) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.