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Poppy — A poppy is any of a number of showy flowers, typically withone per stem, belonging to the poppy family. They include a number of attractive wildflower species with showy flowers found growing singularly or in large groups; many species are also… … Wikipedia
Opium poppy — Papaver somniferum Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae … Wikipedia
California poppy — Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division … Wikipedia
Tall poppy syndrome — (TPS) is a pejorative term used in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand to describe what is seen as a leveling social attitude. Someone is said to be a target of tall poppy syndrome when his or her assumption of a higher economic … Wikipedia
corn poppy — noun annual European poppy common in grain fields and often cultivated • Syn: ↑field poppy, ↑Flanders poppy, ↑Papaver rhoeas • Hypernyms: ↑poppy • Member Holonyms: ↑Papaver, ↑genus Papave … Useful english dictionary
corn poppy — a common Old World poppy, Papaver rhoeas, having bright red flowers. Also called field poppy, Flanders poppy. [1875 80; so called from its growing in grainfields] * * * ▪ plant also called field poppy , or Flanders poppy (Papaver rhoeas) … … Universalium
prickly poppy — any tropical American poppy of the genus Argemone, esp. A. mexicana (Mexican poppy), having prickly pods and leaves and yellow or white, poppylike flowers. [1715 25] * * * ▪ plant also called argemony any of approximately 30 species of… … Universalium
Corn poppy — Corn Corn, n. [AS. corn; akin to OS. korn, D. koren, G., Dan., Sw., & Icel. korn, Goth. ka[ u]rn, L. granum, Russ. zerno. Cf. {Grain}, {Kernel}.] 1. A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain. [1913 Webster] 2. The … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Horn poppy — Horn Horn (h[^o]rn), n. [AS. horn; akin to D. horen, hoorn, G., Icel., Sw., & Dan. horn, Goth. ha[ u]rn, W., Gael., & Ir. corn, L. cornu, Gr. ke ras, and perh. also to E. cheer, cranium, cerebral; cf. Skr. [,c]iras head. Cf. {Carat}, {Corn} on… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
horned poppy — Horn Horn (h[^o]rn), n. [AS. horn; akin to D. horen, hoorn, G., Icel., Sw., & Dan. horn, Goth. ha[ u]rn, W., Gael., & Ir. corn, L. cornu, Gr. ke ras, and perh. also to E. cheer, cranium, cerebral; cf. Skr. [,c]iras head. Cf. {Carat}, {Corn} on… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Welsh poppy — Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division … Wikipedia
