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Meanings of painted leaf in English

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Tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers.

      Poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla.

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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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            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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            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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            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.
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