poinsettia
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- n tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
- She has, however, sent me a poinsettia, poked me and placed a gift beneath my Christmas tree.
- Biologist Ramiro Royero has set up a computerized field office there to collect data on a plant still unknown to the outside world: a shrub whose poinsettia-like leaves are .
- The toughness of the poinsettia whitefly has evolved over generations.