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    PAINTED LEAF

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

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

    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)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

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

    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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