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Christmas flower

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Noun1.Christmas flowerChristmas flower - tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
Christmas star, Euphorbia pulcherrima, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf, poinsettia, painted leaf
Euphorbia, genus Euphorbia - type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice
spurge - any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice


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``Amaryllis are considered the Christmas flower in Holland, where they're given as gifts and used a lot as cut flowers in Christmas arrangements,'' Van Bourgondien says.
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More than $2,000 was spent on the entertainment, $621 for a large floral arrangement and the Christmas flowers and candles that decorated the tables.
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