mole plant

Questions about mole plant

What does mole plant mean?

mole plant means "showy poinsettia found from the southern United States to Peru". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for mole plant?

Close synonyms include Japanese poinsettia, paint leaf, Euphorbia heterophylla, caper spurge, myrtle spurge. 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 mole plant a common word?

mole plant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.