Sentence example with the word 'poinsettia'

poinsettia

Definition n. tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers

Last update: September 18, 2015


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Poinsettia is kept in a pot in my bed room.   [Please select]

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The double poinsettia, again, owes its so-called double condition merely to the increased number of its scarlet involucral leaves, which are not parts of the flower at all.   [Please select]

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To-night she wore a poinsettia, whose peculiarly vivid red brought out the warm browns of her skin and hair.   [Please select]

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Every flower that grows north, south, east, west, on the western hemisphere and the eastern, was to be found in some one of these gardens of Central California; the poinsettia cheek by jowl with periwinkle and the hedges of marguerite; heavy-laden trees of magnolia above beds of Russian violets.   [Please select]

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In the morning I drove down to the San Juan Letran market and brought back a great bundle of the gorgeous _flor de Noche Buena_ (Poinsettia), most difficult to arrange on account of the thick, angular stems, and not too trustworthy about keeping fresh, even here on its native heath.   [Please select]

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