christmas : Idioms & Phrases


christmas begonia

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

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

  • 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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Christmas box

  • 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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christmas bush

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

  • 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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christmas cake

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

  • noun a card expressing a Christmas greeting
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Christmas carol

  • 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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Christmas day

  • 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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christmas disease

  • 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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Christmas eve

  • noun the day before Christmas
    Dec 24.
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  • the evening before Christmas.
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christmas factor

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

  • 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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christmas flower

  • 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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Christmas flower, Christmas rose

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

  • noun a present given at Christmas time
    Christmas gift.
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christmas green

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

  • noun an evergreen tree
    American holly.
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christmas present

  • noun a present given at Christmas time
    Christmas gift.
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christmas pudding

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

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

  • 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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christmas stocking

  • noun a stocking that is filled with small Christmas presents
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Christmas tree

  • 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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father christmas

  • 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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