Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A variety of the wind-poppy, Papaver heterophyllum crassifolium, bearing many small red flowers: found in California.

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Examples

  • Our teardrops, blood-drops, were transcendent, our sexual fluids doors to new realities.

    Gretel by Firelight, Part I Roberta Lawson 2011

  • Roll blood-drops with the tears they whilome rolled:

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Conan, shaking the blood-drops from his eyes, stared frozen.

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

  • The woods were silent again, and that meant they were racing after him, marking his path by the betraying blood-drops he could not check.

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • The woods were silent again, and that meant they were racing after him, marking his path by the betraying blood-drops he could not check.

    The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • At the Cathedral gate was a papier-mache church-ornament shop — most of the carvings and reliefs of the same dismal character: one, for instance, represented a heart with a great gash in it, and a double row of large blood-drops dribbling from it; nails and a knife were thrust into the heart; round the whole was a crown of thorns.

    Little Travels and Roadside Sketches 2004

  • The candle went out, quenched by the falling blood-drops.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Conan, shaking the blood-drops from his eyes, stared frozen.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Conan, shaking the blood-drops from his eyes, stared frozen.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • A few poppies here and there among the wild rye floated scarlet in sunshine like blood-drops on green water.

    The Trespasser 2003

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