painted leaf
1. 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, Mexican flameleaf, Euphorbia pulcherrima • Hypernyms: spurge • Member Holonyms: Euphorbia, genus Euphorbia 2. poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla • Syn: fire-on-the-mountain, Mexican fire plant, Euphorbia cyathophora • Hypernyms: spurge • Member Holonyms: Euphorbia, genus Euphorbia
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