euphorbia pulcherrima

Questions about euphorbia pulcherrima

What does euphorbia pulcherrima mean?

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

What is another word for euphorbia pulcherrima?

Close synonyms include poinsettia, Christmas star, Christmas flower, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf. 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 euphorbia pulcherrima a common word?

euphorbia pulcherrima 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.