Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun painted_leaf

2 senses of painted leaf

Sense 1
fire-on-the-mountain, painted leaf, Mexican fire plant, Euphorbia cyathophora -- (poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla)
       => spurge -- (any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice)

Sense 2
poinsettia, Christmas star, Christmas flower, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf, Euphorbia pulcherrima -- (tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers)
       => spurge -- (any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice)