mexican flameleaf

Questions about mexican flameleaf

What does mexican flameleaf mean?

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

What is another word for mexican flameleaf?

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

mexican flameleaf 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.