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Christmas star

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Noun1.Christmas starChristmas star - tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
Christmas flower, 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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It's the Herczak and Rivera families over on Rhodes Avenue in North Hollywood, who illuminated an old Christmas star atop a 70-foot-high evergreen in their front yard, rekindling a holiday tradition in their neighborhood for another generation of kids.
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