poppy

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. 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. n. Any of several similar or related plants, such as the California poppy.
3. n. An extract from the sap of unripe poppy seedpods, used in medicine and narcotics.
4. n. A vivid red to reddish orange.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A plant of the genus Papaver. The poppies are showy herbs, in the New World cultivated chiefly in gardeus, and wild or cultivated in the Old. The opium-poppy, P. somniferum, is of importance as the source of opium and as yielding, in its seeds, a valuable oil. (See poppy-oil and maw-seed.) Its capsules afford also a syrup or extract used as a sedative, and in hot decoction serve as an anodyne application. The opium-poppy is a glaucous plant, with wavy clasping leaves. The petals and seeds vary in color. The variety chiefly cultivated in India and Persia has white petals and white seeds, that in Asia Minor purple petals and dark seeds; they are called respectively white and black poppy. The common red poppy, corn-poppy, or corn-rose is P. Rhœas, abounding in central and southern Europe and western Asia. The petals are deep-red or scarlet with a dark eye, or when doubled varying in color. The long-headed poppy, P. dubium, has smaller flowers of a lighter red, the capsule elongated. The Oriental poppy, P. orientale, has a very large deep-red flower on a tall peduncle, and is the most showy species.
2. n. One of several plants belonging to other genera of the Papaveraceæ.
3. n. The foxglove.
4. n. In architecture, same as poppy-head.

Wiktionary

1. n. An affectionate nickname given to a father or grandfather, or a male authority figure standing in a similar position.
2. adj. music In the style of pop music.
3. adj. Having a popping sound.
4. n. Any plant of the species Papaver, with crumpled often red petals and a milky juice.
5. n. a bright red colour, tinted with orange, like that of the poppy flower.
6. n. chiefly UK, Canada a simple artificial poppy worn in the buttonhole to remember the fallen in the two World Wars, especially around Remembrance Sunday.
7. adj. of a bright red colour, tinted with orange, like that of the poppy flower.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Bot.) Any plant or species of the genus Papaver, herbs with showy polypetalous flowers and a milky juice. From one species (Papaver somniferum) opium is obtained, though all the species contain it to some extent; also, a flower of the plant. See Illust. of capsule.
2. n. (Arch.) A raised ornament frequently having the form of final. It is generally used on the tops of the upright ends or elbows which terminate seats, etc., in Gothic churches.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. annual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers