christ plant

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   somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts

   Synonymscrown of thornsChrist thornEuphorbia milii

   Broaderspurge

   Part ofEuphorbia

Questions about christ plant

What does christ plant mean?

christ plant means "somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts".

What is another word for christ plant?

Close synonyms include crown of thorns, Christ thorn, Euphorbia milii. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is christ plant a common word?

christ plant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.