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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The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.