christmas star

Questions about christmas star

What does christmas star mean?

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

What is another word for christmas star?

Close synonyms include poinsettia, Christmas flower, 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 star a common word?

christmas star 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.