| japanese poinsettia | (n) showy poinsettia found from the southern United States to Peru, Syn. mole plant, Euphorbia heterophylla, paint leaf |
| poinsettia | (n) tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers, Syn. Euphorbia pulcherrima, Christmas flower, Mexican flameleaf, lobster plant, Christmas star, painted leaf |
| superbug | (n) a strain of pest accidentally imported into Florida from the Middle East then spread to California where it is a very serious pest feeding on almost all vegetable crops and poinsettias, Syn. Bemisia tabaci, poinsettia strain |
