christmas flower

Questions about christmas flower

What does christmas flower mean?

christmas flower means "tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers".

What is another word for christmas flower?

Close synonyms include poinsettia, Christmas star, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf. 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 christmas flower a common word?

christmas flower 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.