Definition of Poppy

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Definition of Poppy

Poppy

Any plant or species of the genus Papaver, herbs with showy polypetalous flowers and a milky juice. From one species (Papaver somniferum) opium is obtained, though all the species contain it to some extent; also, a flower of the plant. See Illust. of Capsule.

Alt. of Poppyhead

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Poppy Quotations

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.
Travis Barker

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
Walter Savage Landor

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
John Berger

And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
Francis Thompson

Poppy Translations

poppy in Dutch is papaver
poppy in French is pavot
poppy in German is Mohnblume
poppy in Italian is papavero
poppy in Latin is papaver
poppy in Spanish is amapola, adormidera
poppy in Swedish is vallmo

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