poinsettias in English
noun
1
a small Mexican shrub with large showy scarlet bracts surrounding the small yellow flowers, popular as a houseplant at Christmas.
For most Americans poinsettias are like Douglas firs: You buy them for Christmas, and throw them out along with all that shredded wrapping paper.
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1. It's possible that poinsettias get the Bummest rap in the plant world
2. Unlike modern poinsettias, the center is very open, which exposes the true flowers, and the floral Bracts …
3. 21 Oh, and flowers—I got a wristlet for Sue, a flower for my lapel and two poinsettias for the mantel.
4. A Bract is a modified leaf at the base of a flower, and is often more showy than the flower itself - the red Bracts of poinsettias are another example.