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PAINTED LEAF

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Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers

Synonyms:

Christmas flower; Christmas star; Euphorbia pulcherrima; lobster plant; Mexican flameleaf; painted leaf; poinsettia

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("painted leaf" is a kind of...):

spurge (any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice)

Holonyms ("painted leaf" is a member of...):

Euphorbia; genus Euphorbia (type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla

Synonyms:

Euphorbia cyathophora; fire-on-the-mountain; Mexican fire plant; painted leaf

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("painted leaf" is a kind of...):

spurge (any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice)

Holonyms ("painted leaf" is a member of...):

Euphorbia; genus Euphorbia (type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice)

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