christmas : Idioms & Phrases

• noun hybrid winter-blooming begonia grown for its many large pink flowers
  Begonia cheimantha; blooming-fool begonia.
  

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• noun any of several plants of the genus Blandfordia having large orange or crimson flowers
  

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• noun spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having spreading branches usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries
  Christmasberry; Lycium carolinianum.
  
• noun ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia
  toyon; tollon; Photinia arbutifolia; Heteromeles arbutifolia; Christmasberry.
  

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• noun a present given at Christmas for services during the year
  

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• . (a) A box in which presents are deposited at Christmas. (b) A present or small gratuity given to young people and servants at Christmas; a Christmas gift.

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• noun Australian tree or shrub with red flowers; often used in Christmas decoration
  Christmas bush; Ceratopetalum gummiferum.
  

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• noun epiphytic cactus of Brazilian ancestry widely cultivated as a houseplant having jointed flat segments and usually rose-purple flowers that bloom in winter
  Schlumbergera baridgesii; Schlumbergera buckleyi.
  

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• noun a rich fruitcake (usually covered with icing and marzipan) and eaten at Christmas
  

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• noun a card expressing a Christmas greeting
  

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• noun joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ
  carol.
  

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• a carol sung at, or suitable for, Christmas.

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• noun a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
  Dec 25; Christmas; Xmas.
  

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• . Same as Christmas.

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• noun a clotting disorder similar to hemophilia A but caused by a congenital deficiency of factor IX
  haemophilia B; hemophilia B.
  

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• noun the day before Christmas
  Dec 24.
  

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• the evening before Christmas.

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• noun coagulation factor whose absence is associated with hemophilia B
  factor IX.
  

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• noun North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds
  dagger fern; Polystichum acrostichoides; canker brake; evergreen wood fern.
  

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• (Bot.), an evergreen North American fern (Aspidium acrostichoides), which is much used for decoration in winter.

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• noun tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
  lobster plant; Euphorbia pulcherrima; painted leaf; Mexican flameleaf; poinsettia; Christmas flower.
  

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• the black hellebore, a poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which in Southern Europe often produces beautiful roselike flowers midwinter.

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• noun a present given at Christmas time
  Christmas gift.
  

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• noun any of several club mosses having long creeping stems and erect branches
  ground pine.
  

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• noun an evergreen tree
  American holly.
  

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• noun a present given at Christmas time
  Christmas gift.
  

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• noun a rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cake
  plum pudding.
  

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• noun European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers
  Helleborus niger; winter rose; black hellebore.
  

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• noun tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
  lobster plant; Euphorbia pulcherrima; painted leaf; Mexican flameleaf; poinsettia; Christmas flower.
  

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• noun a stocking that is filled with small Christmas presents
  

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• noun Australian tree or shrub with red flowers; often used in Christmas decoration
  Christmas bush; Ceratopetalum gummiferum.
  
• noun a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses
  Nuytsia floribunda; fire tree; flame tree.
  
• noun tall timber tree of central and southern Europe having a regular crown and grey bark
  European silver fir; Abies alba.
  
• noun medium to tall fir of western North America having a conic crown and branches in tiers; leaves smell of orange when crushed
  white fir; red silver fir; Abies amabilis; amabilis fir; Pacific silver fir.
  
• noun an ornamented evergreen used as a Christmas decoration
  

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• a small evergreen tree, set up indoors, to be decorated with bonbons, presents, etc., and illuminated on Christmas eve.

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• noun the legendary patron saint of children; an imaginary being who is thought to bring presents to children at Christmas
  Kriss Kringle; Saint Nicholas; St. Nick; Santa; Santa Claus; Saint Nick.
  

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