Hyphenation of poinsettia

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word poinsettia? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

poin-set-tia

Definitions of poinsettia:

1.	Tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers

Synonyms of poinsettia:

noun	Christmas star, Christmas flower, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf, Euphorbia pulcherrima, spurge

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