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poppy

[ pop-ee ]

noun

, plural pop·pies
  1. any plant of the genus Papaver, having showy, usually red flowers. Compare poppy family.
  2. any of several related or similar plants, as the California poppy or the prickly poppy.
  3. an extract, as opium, from such a plant.
  4. Also called poppy red. an orangish red resembling scarlet.
  5. Architecture. poppyhead.
  6. an artificial flower resembling a poppy, especially one received as evidence of a contribution to a fund for disabled war veterans.


poppy

1

/ ˈpɒpɪ /

noun

  1. any of numerous papaveraceous plants of the temperate genus Papaver, having red, orange, or white flowers and a milky sap See corn poppy Iceland poppy opium poppy
  2. any of several similar or related plants, such as the California poppy, prickly poppy, horned poppy, and Welsh poppy
  3. obsolete.
    any of the drugs, such as opium, that are obtained from these plants
    1. a strong red to reddish-orange colour
    2. ( as adjective )

      a poppy dress

  4. a less common name for poppyhead
  5. an artificial red poppy flower worn to mark Remembrance Sunday


poppy

2

/ ˈpɒpɪ /

adjective

  1. of or relating to pop music

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  • poppy·like adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of poppy1

before 900; Middle English; Old English popæg, papig Vulgar Latin *papāvum, for Latin papāver

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Word History and Origins

Origin of poppy1

Old English popæg, ultimately from Latin papāver

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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. tall poppy, Australian. someone of preeminence or with a large income; important and powerful person.

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Example Sentences

Music journalist Joel Selwin annotates, with a preface by Donovan, a foreword by Jorma Kaukonen, and an afterword by John Poppy.

Poppy Morgan went to her primary care doctor in 2010 because she desperately wanted to take a risk.

Her gorgeous legs seemingly reaching up to the sky, Swift performed her new single, “Shake It Off,” with a bouncy, poppy energy.

Cases in point: girl starbabies named Autumn James, Gracie James, Mary James, Poppy James, Agnes Charles and Lucy Thomas.

To this day, I, like many in Britain, still wear a poppy on Nov. 11.

California seemed less like a voluptuous leviathan blowing poppy-dust that blunted the memory of all things beyond her borders.

Gives much, but claims all, and he who would open the poppy-gates must close the door of ambition and bid farewell to manhood.

The hills burst into buttercups, "blue eyes," yellow and purple lupins, the heavy pungent gold-red poppy.

A second inferior quantity is obtained by pressing and boiling the poppy heads and stems.

Martin turned as red as a poppy, as he flashed up in honest anger that such paltry meanness should be charged on him.

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