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BLUE POPPY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blue poppy mean?
• BLUE POPPY (noun)
The noun BLUE POPPY has 1 sense:
1. Chinese perennial having mauve-pink to bright sky blue flowers in drooping cymes
Familiarity information: BLUE POPPY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chinese perennial having mauve-pink to bright sky blue flowers in drooping cymes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
blue poppy; Meconopsis betonicifolia
Hypernyms ("blue poppy" is a kind of...):
poppy (annual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers)
Holonyms ("blue poppy" is a member of...):
genus Meconopsis; Meconopsis (herbs almost entirely of mountains of China and Tibet; often monocarpic)
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