poinsettia

See also: Poinsettia

English

Poinsettia plants

Etymology

After the obsolete genus name Poinsettia, named after Joel Roberts Poinsett (19th-century US minister to Mexico); equivalent to Poinsett +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpɔɪnˈsɛ.tɪə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌpɔɪnˈsɛ.t(i)ə/

Noun

poinsettia (plural poinsettias)

1. A plant, Euphorbia pulcherrima, with rather small and insignificant flowers surrounded by large bright red leaves; native to Mexico and Central America and widely cultivated as a garden plant; widely used in Christmas floral displays.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 22:

     Masses of scarlet Poinsettias glowed bravely against the dark green background formed by broad-leafed plantains, whose great tattered leaves rustled with every gust of wind that reached them.

   • 2018, Tommy Orange, “Jacquie Red Feather”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 99:

     “So red,” she said of the poinsettias behind Florencia, which Jacquie didn’t even like because of how even the real ones look fake.

Synonyms

• (Euphorbia pulcherrima): Christmas star, Mexican flame leaf

Descendants

• → Irish: poinséitia
• → Korean: 포인세티아 (poinsetia)
• → Welsh: poinsetia

Translations

plant

• Arabic: بنت القنسول f
• Bulgarian: коледна звезда f (koledna zvezda)
• Catalan: ponsètia f, flor de Nadal f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一品紅 / 一品红 (zh) (yīpǐnhóng)

• Danish: julestjerne c
• Dutch: kerstster (nl) f, poinsettia (nl) f
• Esperanto: belega eŭforbio sg
• Faroese: jólastjørna f
• Finnish: joulutähti (fi)
• German: Weihnachtsstern (de) m
• Hungarian: mikulásvirág (hu)
• Icelandic: jólastjarna f
• Indonesian: kastuba
• Irish: poinséitia f
• Italian: stella di Natale (it) f
• Korean: 포인세티아 (poinsetia)
• Nahuatl: cuetlaxōchitl

  Classical Nahuatl: cuetlaxochitl

• Persian: سرخ‌برگه، بنت کنسول، بنت قنسول
• Polish: poinsecja (pl) f, gwiazda betlejemska (pl) f, wilczomlecz nadobny m, wilczomlecz piękny m, poinsecja nadobna f
• Portuguese: bico-de-papagaio m, poinsétia (pt) f
• Romanian: steaua Crăciunului f, crăciuniță f
• Russian: пуансе́ттия (ru) f (puansɛ́ttija)
• Spanish: flor de Pascua f, corona del Inca f (Chile), estrella federal f (Argentina), flor de Nochebuena f (Mexico), papagayo m (Venezuela), pastora f (Costa Rica, Nicaragua). sombrilla japonesa f (Colombia), nochebuena (es) f (Mexico)
• Swedish: julstjärna (sv) c
• Tagalog: paskuwa, paskuwas
• Thai: คริสต์มาส (th) (krís-mâas), โพผัน (poo-pǎn), สองฤดู (sɔ̌ɔng-rʉ́-duu)
• Turkish: Atatürk çiçeği (tr)
• Vietnamese: trạng nguyên (vi)
• Welsh: poinsetia m

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Poinsettia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʋaːnˈsɛ.ti.aː/

• Audio:

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Noun

poinsettia f (plural poinsettia's, diminutive poinsettiaatje n)

1. synonym of kerstster (“poinsettia”)