poinsettia

Poinsettia plants

Meaning

A plant, Euphorbia pulcherrima, with rather small and insignificant flowers but large brightly coloured leaves.

After the obsolete genus name Poinsettia (genus), named after Joel Roberts Poinsett (19th-century US minister to Mexico); equivalent to Poinsett + -ia.

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