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poppy
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pop·py  (pp)
n. pl. pop·pies
1. Any of numerous plants of the genus Papaver, having nodding buds with four crumpled petals, showy red, orange, or white flowers, a milky juice, and capsules that dehisce through terminal pores.
2. Any of several similar or related plants, such as the California poppy.
3. An extract from the sap of unripe poppy seedpods, used in medicine and narcotics.
4. A vivid red to reddish orange.

[Middle English popi, from Old English popig, probably alteration of Vulgar Latin *papvum, alteration of Latin papver.]

poppy
Noun
pl -pies
1. a plant with showy red, orange, or white flowers
2. a drug, such as opium, obtained from these plants
3. an artificial red poppy worn to mark Remembrance Sunday and in New Zealand to mark Anzac Day
Adjective
reddish-orange [Old English popæg]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.poppypoppy - annual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers
flower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
family Papaveraceae, Papaveraceae, poppy family - herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits
Papaver alpinum, Iceland poppy - Old World alpine poppy with white or yellow to orange flowers
Papaver californicum, western poppy - showy annual of California with red flowers
Papaver argemone, prickly poppy - annual Old World poppy with orange-red flowers and bristly fruit
arctic poppy, Iceland poppy, Papaver nudicaule - subarctic perennial poppy of both hemispheres having fragrant white or yellow to orange or peach flowers
oriental poppy, Papaver orientale - commonly cultivated Asiatic perennial poppy having stiff heavily haired leaves and bright scarlet or pink to orange flowers
corn poppy, field poppy, Flanders poppy, Papaver rhoeas - annual European poppy common in grain fields and often cultivated
opium poppy, Papaver somniferum - southwestern Asian herb with greyish leaves and white or reddish flowers; source of opium
Chelidonium majus, greater celandine, swallow wort, swallowwort, celandine - perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers
California poppy, Eschscholtzia californica - of Pacific coast of North America; widely cultivated for its yellow to red flowers
golden cup, Hunnemania fumariifolia, Mexican tulip poppy - native of Mexican highlands grown for its glossy clear yellow flowers and blue-grey finely dissected foliage
bocconia, Macleaya cordata, plume poppy - herb of China and Japan widely cultivated for its plumelike panicles of creamy white flowers
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
creamcups, Platystemon californicus - California plant with small pale yellow flowers
flaming poppy, Papaver heterophyllum, Stylomecon heterophyllum, wind poppy - California wild poppy with bright red flowers
celandine poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum, wood poppy - perennial herb native to woodland of the eastern United States having yellow flowers
Translations
poppy [ˈpɔpɪ] namapola see also Remembrance Sunday

poppy [ˈpɔpɪ] n (wild) → coquelicot m;
(cultivated) → pavot m

poppy [ˈpɔpɪ] nMohn m

poppy [ˈpɔpɪ] npapavero

poppy
n poppy [ˈpopi]
a type of plant with large, usually red flowers. papawer خَشْخاش мак mák valmue der Mohn παπαρούνα amapola moon خشخاش unikko pavot פֶּרֶג पोस्ता, पोस्त mak pipacs pohon opium draumsóley, valmúi papavero けし 양귀비속(屬)의 식물 aguona magone pokok popi papaver valmue mak papoila mac мак mak mak mak vallmo ต้นป๊อบปี้ gelincik (çiçeği) 罌粟屬植物 мак خشخاش، پوستہ cây anh túc


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