MEXICAN POPPY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mexican poppy mean? 

• MEXICAN POPPY (noun)
  The noun MEXICAN POPPY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: MEXICAN POPPY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEXICAN POPPY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Argemone mexicana; Mexican poppy

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)