meconopsis

meconopsis [ˌmɛkəˈnɒpsɪs]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any plant of the mostly Asiatic papaveraceous genus Meconopsis, esp M. betonicifolia (the Tibetan or blue poppy), grown for its showy sky-blue flowers. M. cambrica is the Welsh poppy

[New Latin, from Greek mēkōn poppy + -opsis]

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Meconopsis - herbs almost entirely of mountains of China and Tibet; often monocarpic genus Meconopsis dilleniid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs family Papaveraceae, Papaveraceae, poppy family - herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits blue poppy, Meconopsis betonicifolia - Chinese perennial having mauve-pink to bright sky blue flowers in drooping cymes Meconopsis cambrica, Welsh poppy - widely cultivated west European plant with showy pale yellow flowers