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  1. noun Any of numerous plants of the genus Papaver, having nodding buds with four crumpled petals, showy red, orange, or white flowers, a milky juice, and capsules that dehisce through terminal pores.
  2. noun Any of several similar or related plants, such as the California poppy.
  3. noun An extract from the sap of unripe poppy seedpods, used in medicine and narcotics.
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  • It is for this reason that the warlords have been allowed to cultivate poppy which is their main source of income to fuel militancy. —  Asian Tribune
  • The region is known for its crops of marijuana and poppy, which is used to make heroin. —  IBTimes.com RSS Feed - Politics & Policy
  • United Kingdom the poppy is the symbol of mourning for war dead. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Tight and deceptively complex post-hardcore that's melodic without being too poppy, and gritty without sounding like they're from Gainesville. —  Mammoth Press
  • Yellow horned-poppy, which has crinkled grey-green leaves often visible all year and extraordinary long, thin, usually curved seedpods up to 25cm long. —  EDP24 News
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  1. Middle English popi, from Old English popig, probably alteration of Vulgar Latin *papāvum, alteration of Latin papāver.

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  1. from Middle English popy, from Anglo-Saxon popig, papig = French pavot, Norman papi = Provencal paver, papaver = Spanish ababol, corn-poppy, amapola, poppy, corn-poppy, = Portuguese papoula = Italian papavero, from Latin papaver, poppy. The Greek word was μήκων; cf. meconium. The L. papaver suffered considerable change in passing into vernacular use in later languages. With poppy in the architectural sense, cf. French poupée in same sense (whence English poop), apparently an extended use of poupée, the bunch of flax on a distaff, hence a distaff, also a crown-graft, particular uses of poupée, a doll, rag-baby: see puppet.
 

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