Tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers.
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Examples for "poinsettia"
Examples for "poinsettia"
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There was a great clump of flaming poinsettia at the Payson gate.
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Before we left, Bette handed me a poinsettia in a copper pot.
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And the florist had delivered a huge poinsettia from my sister, Bonnie.
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I smiled and ripped off a poinsettia from the planter next to me.
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I sat there, fingering one of the poinsettia's green leaves.
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The shimmering silver Christmas star earrings she's wearing catch the TV glare.
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It was the story of the Christmas star-theStar of Bethlehem.
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The Christmas star had shone out in the sky as soon as the sun set.
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He sees them going, shivering in their shroud of fine linen, and watches the Christmas star loaded on to a cart.
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The second new property in the Blue Book is Glin Castle in Co Limerick, owned by actor Dominic West -talk about a Christmas star.
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And those red Christmas flowers growing high as the garage!
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Free-branching poinsettia cultivars that produce numerous axillary shoots are essential for propagating desirable multi-flowered poinsettias ( Euphorbia pulcherrima Wild.