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Meanings of christmas star in English

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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.
Stanford Stories: Tales of a Young University
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Before we left, Bette handed me a poinsettia in a copper pot.
Stiltsville: a novel
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And the florist had delivered a huge poinsettia from my sister, Bonnie.
Fear nothing
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I smiled and ripped off a poinsettia from the planter next to me.
Made of honor
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I sat there, fingering one of the poinsettia's green leaves.
Blind willow, sleeping woman
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And those red Christmas flowers growing high as the garage!
Across the Fruited Plain
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Free-branching poinsettia cultivars that produce numerous axillary shoots are essential for propagating desirable multi-flowered poinsettias ( Euphorbia pulcherrima Wild.
Pubmed
Usage of christmas star in English
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The shimmering silver Christmas star earrings she's wearing catch the TV glare.
Something wicked
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It was the story of the Christmas star-theStar of Bethlehem.
The Children's Book of Christmas Stories
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The Christmas star had shone out in the sky as soon as the sun set.
Tell Me Another Story: The Book of Story Programs
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You can separately purchase the Christmas Star book which is great for kids who already have Jingle.
Wired
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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.
Wolf hall
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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.
The Irish Times
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He fetched his Christmas star from the loft, restuck the gold flowers and paper strips and fastened them in the cleft of the long wand.
The Path of Life
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A Christmas star hangs from a damaged local village hall overlooking the ruins of houses in Tacloban city in central Philippines, December 17, 2013.
Reuters