Crossword-Solution: POINSETTIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Poinsettia | n. | A Mexican shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers. |
We have 27 clues for the answer “POINSETTIA”
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| Decoration for Dec. 25th. | 1 answer |
| Plant often bought in December | 1 answer |
| Red-and-white Christmas plant | 1 answer |
| Popular holiday gift. | 1 answer |
| Popular Christmas decoration | 1 answer |
| Plant with a December 12th "Day" | 1 answer |
| Plant whose leaves are said to symbolize the Star of Bethlehem | 1 answer |
| Plant named for an early U.S. diplomat in Mexico | 1 answer |
| Plant associated with Christmas | 1 answer |
| Leaves for the holidays? | 1 answer |
| Flower displayed at Christmas | 1 answer |
| Flower called _cuetlaxochitl_ by the Aztecs | 1 answer |
| Floral symbol of Christmas. | 1 answer |
| EUPHORBIA pulcherrima | 1 answer |
| December adornment | 1 answer |
| Christmassy plant | 1 answer |
| Christmas bloomer | 1 answer |
| A beautiful red flower | 1 answer |
| Yuletide plant | 2 answers |
| Xmas plant | 2 answers |
| WARM house plant | 14 answers |
| COOL stovehouse plant | 14 answers |
| Christmas Decoration | 21 answers |
| AUSTRALIAN poisonous plant | 32 answers |
| AUSTRALIAN plant | 42 answers |
| GREENHOUSE plant | 52 answers |
| poisonous plant | 52 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with POINSETTIA (5)
But along toward evening she blossomed forth in a yellow gown, with a scarlet poinsettia at her throat.
The rest may die--but is there not Some shining strange escape for me Who sought in Beauty the bright wine Of immortality? In a Cuban Garden Hibiscus flowers are cups of fire, (Love me, my lover, life will not stay) The bright poinsettia shakes in the wind, A scarlet leaf is blowing away.
Whenever I have looked at the flowers of these latter plants I have felt inclined to admit the view that petals are modified stamens, and not modified leaves; though Poinsettia seems to show that true leaves might be converted into coloured petals.
Residences all along, set in the midst of green lawns with shrubs and generally one or two intensely red outbursts of poinsettia--the flaming splotch of blinding red a stunning contrast with the world of surrounding green.
The garden seemed a tangle of all manner of vegetation--an oleander in bloom, a poinsettia, a yucca, lifting its spike of waxen white blossoms, a narrow flower-border in which the gardenias had become tall shrubs and the scented verbena shrubs almost trees.
Quotes with POINSETTIA (1)
Conversely, the red plant itself burns a brighter red when set off by the green than when it grows among its peers. In the bed I always reserved for poinsettia seedlings, there was little to distinguish one plant from its neighbours. My poinsettia did not turn scarlet until I planted it in new surroundings. Colour is not something one has, colour is bestowed on one by others.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1953–2022).