poppy

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.

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

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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]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

poppy - 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] n → amapola see also Remembrance Sunday

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

(cultivated) → pavot m

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poppy [ˈpɔpɪ] n → Mohn m

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poppy [ˈpɔpɪ] n → papavero