lobster plant

Questions about lobster plant

What does lobster plant mean?

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

What is another word for lobster plant?

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

lobster 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.