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Noun: lobster plant
  1. Tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
    - poinsettia, Christmas star, Christmas flower, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf, Euphorbia pulcherrima

Derived forms: lobster plants

Type of: spurge

Part of: Euphorbia, genus Euphorbia