MEXICAN POPPY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Annual herb with prickly stems and large yellow flowers; southern United States to West Indies and Mexico

Synonyms:

Argemone mexicana; Mexican poppy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Mexican poppy" is a kind of...):

argemone; devil's fig; prickly poppy; white thistle (any plant of the genus Argemone having large white or yellow flowers and prickly leaves and stems and pods; chiefly of tropical America)

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