corn poppy


noun
  1. a common Old World poppy, Papaver rhoeas, having bright-red flowers.

Origin of corn poppy

1
First recorded in 1875–80; so called from its growing in grainfields

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British Dictionary definitions for corn poppy

corn poppy

noun
  1. a poppy, Papaver rhoeas, that has bright red flowers and grows in cornfields. Since World War I it has been the symbol of fallen soldiers: Also called: coquelicot, Flanders poppy, field poppy

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