lobster plant


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Noun1.lobster plant - tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowerslobster plant - tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
Christmas flower, Christmas star, Euphorbia pulcherrima, Mexican flameleaf, poinsettia, painted leaf
Euphorbia, genus Euphorbia - type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice
spurge - any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice
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