POPPY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poppy mean? 

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

1. annual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

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

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)

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)

 Context examples 

A synthetic iodine addition product of the ethyl ester of the fatty acids of poppy seed oil.

(Ethiodized oil, NCI Thesaurus)

I caught her singing that song he gave her, and once she said 'John', as you do, and then turned as red as a poppy.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It is a form of poppy seed oil that contains iodine, some of which is the radioactive substance iodine I 131.

(iodine I 131 ethiodized oil, NCI Dictionary)

A form of poppy seed oil that contains iodine.

(Ethiodized oil, NCI Dictionary)

Then the Queen hurriedly gave her people the order to start, for she feared if the mice stayed among the poppies too long they also would fall asleep.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Cerebral organoids are small spheres of human brain cells ranging in size from that of a poppy seed to a small pea.

(Cerebral organoid model provides clues about how to prevent virus-induced brain cell death, National Institutes of Health)

A cytotoxic radioconjugate consisting of lipiodol, an iodinated ethyl ester derived from poppy seed oil, labeled with iodine 131 (I-131).

(iodine I 131 ethiodized oil, NCI Thesaurus)

It's made from morphine, a natural substance in the seedpod of the Asian poppy plant.

(Heroin, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

Opiates include natural ingredients of the poppy and their derivatives - opium, morphine, codeine, and heroin.

(Opiate, NCI Thesaurus)

The hydrochloride salt of a diacetyl derivative of the opiate morphine, a naturally occurring alkaloid extracted from the seedpod of the Asian poppy (Papaver sp.).

(Diacetylmorphine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)