poinsettia

poinsettia

See also: Poinsettia

English

Poinsettia plants

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpɔɪnˈsɛ.tɪə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌpɔɪnˈsɛ.t(i)ə/

Noun

poinsettia (plural poinsettias)

1. A plant, Euphorbia pulcherrima, with rather small and insignificant flowers surrounded by large bright red leaves; native to Mexico and Central America and widely cultivated as a garden plant.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 22:

     Masses of scarlet Poinsettias glowed bravely against the dark green background formed by broad-leafed plantains, whose great tattered leaves rustled with every gust of wind that reached them.

Synonyms

• (Euphorbia pulcherrima): Christmas star, Mexican flame leaf

Translations

plant

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: коледна звезда f (koledna zvezda) Chinese: Mandarin: 一品紅 (zh), 一品红 (zh) (yīpǐnhóng) Danish: julestjerne c Dutch: kerstster (nl) f or m Finnish: joulutähti (fi) German: Weihnachtsstern (de) m Icelandic: jólastjarna f Italian: stella di Natale (it) f Nahuatl: cuetlaxōchitl Polish: poinsecja (pl) f, gwiazda betlejemska (pl) f, wilczomlecz nadobny m, wilczomlecz piękny m, poinsecja nadobna f Portuguese: bico-de-papagaio m, poinsétia (pt) f Romanian: steaua Crăciunului f Russian: пуансе́ттия (ru) f (puansɛ́ttija) Spanish: flor de Pascua f, corona del Inca f (Chile), estrella federal f (Argentina), flor de Nochebuena f (Mexico), papagayo m (Venezuela), pastora f (Costa Rica, Nicaragua). sombrilla japonesa f (Colombia), nochebuena (es) f (Mexico) Swedish: julstjärna (sv) c Tagalog: paskwa, paskwas Turkish: Atatürk çiçeği (tr)