poppied

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poppied

(ˈpɒpɪd)

adj

1. (Botany) covered with poppies

2. (Pharmacology) of or relating to the effects of poppies, esp in inducing drowsiness or sleep

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pop•pied

(ˈpɒp id)

adj.

1. covered with poppies: poppied fields.

2. listless or drowsy from or as if from opium.

[1795–1805]

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He has no poppied or honeyed cakes through which to give the monster sleep or sustenance.

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had breathed the poppied fumes of all its glorious unreality" and the effect is to render the mundane world of his experience "an evil dream" (595).

Gant among the Hudson Valley Rich: Class and Craft

The poppied crowds reflected and, perhaps more in years gone by, remembered lost friends and relatives.