POPPY

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poppy"):

celandine poppy; Stylophorum diphyllum; wood poppy (perennial herb native to woodland of the eastern United States having yellow flowers)

flaming poppy; Papaver heterophyllum; Stylomecon heterophyllum; wind poppy (California wild poppy with bright red flowers)

creamcups; Platystemon californicus (California plant with small pale yellow flowers)

Meconopsis cambrica; Welsh poppy (widely cultivated west European plant with showy pale yellow flowers)

blue poppy; Meconopsis betonicifolia (Chinese perennial having mauve-pink to bright sky blue flowers in drooping cymes)

bocconia; Macleaya cordata; plume poppy (herb of China and Japan widely cultivated for its plumelike panicles of creamy white flowers)

golden cup; Hunnemania fumariifolia; Mexican tulip poppy (native of Mexican highlands grown for its glossy clear yellow flowers and blue-grey finely dissected foliage)

California poppy; Eschscholtzia californica (of Pacific coast of North America; widely cultivated for its yellow to red flowers)

celandine; Chelidonium majus; greater celandine; swallow wort; swallowwort (perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers)

opium poppy; Papaver somniferum (southwestern Asian herb with greyish leaves and white or reddish flowers; source of opium)

corn poppy; field poppy; Flanders poppy; Papaver rhoeas (annual European poppy common in grain fields and often cultivated)

oriental poppy; Papaver orientale (commonly cultivated Asiatic perennial poppy having stiff heavily haired leaves and bright scarlet or pink to orange flowers)

arctic poppy; Iceland poppy; Papaver nudicaule (subarctic perennial poppy of both hemispheres having fragrant white or yellow to orange or peach flowers)

Papaver argemone; prickly poppy (annual Old World poppy with orange-red flowers and bristly fruit)

Papaver californicum; western poppy (showy annual of California with red flowers)

Iceland poppy; Papaver alpinum (Old World alpine poppy with white or yellow to orange flowers)

Holonyms ("poppy" is a member of...):

family Papaveraceae; Papaveraceae; poppy family (herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits)

Credits

Context examples:

A phthalide isoquinoline non-narcotic alkaloid derived from the opium poppy Papaver somniferum, with mild analgesic, antitussive, and potential antineoplastic activities.

(Noscapine, NCI Thesaurus)

Also known as Laudanum and formulated for oral administration, Opium tincture is made of air-dried poppy (Papaver somniferum) latex and contains alkaloids such as morphine and codeine.

(Opium Tincture, NCI Thesaurus)

The orally available hydrochloride salt of the opioid agonist noscapine, a phthalideisoquinoline alkaloid derived from the opium poppy Papaver somniferum, with mild analgesic, antitussive, and potential antineoplastic activities.

(Noscapine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Soon they rolled the Lion out of the poppy bed to the green fields, where he could breathe the sweet, fresh air again, instead of the poisonous scent of the flowers.