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Webster 1913 Edition

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(poin-sĕt′tĭ-ȧ)

Noun.

[NL. Named after Joel R.

Poinsett

of South Carolina.]

(Bot.)

A Mexican shrub (

Euphorbia pulcherrima

) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.