əˈreɪ adjective
belonging to the Papaveraceae, the poppy family of plants.
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| —adj | |
| of, relating to, or belonging to the Papaveraceae, a family of plants having large showy flowers and a cylindrical seed capsule with pores beneath the lid: includes the poppies and greater celandine | |
| [C19: from New Latin, from Latin papāver | |
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