单词 | Christmas flower |
释义 | Christmas flower (once / 1477414 pages) n WORD FAMILY Christmas flower: Christmas flowers USAGE EXAMPLESThe beautiful Christmas flower, the poinsettia, was named in compliment to Mr. Poinsett. Gouverneur, Marian, As I Remember—Recollections of Amer...(2010) He saw the moon glimmer on the clumps of grass outside where the Christmas flower bloomed. Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett), The Riddle Of The Rocks—1895(2010) Her cheeks matched the poinsettia, or Christmas flower, and her eyes were as blue as the sapphires in the jewel shops. Penrose, Margaret, Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays(2010) n tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers Syn|Hyper Christmas star, Euphorbia pulcherrima, Mexican flameleaf, lobster plant, painted leaf, poinsettia spurge any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice |
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