Noun: Christmas flower
- Tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
"Christmas flowers are a popular Christmas decoration";
- poinsettia, Christmas star, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf, Euphorbia pulcherrima
Derived forms: Christmas flowers
Type of: spurge
Part of: Euphorbia, genus Euphorbia
Encyclopedia: Christmas flower