Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
poppy .
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Examples
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And he kissed her, -- kissed her on the cheek, -- by a yellow sea-poppy that nodded its head exactly like the maddening dry rose in the garden.
The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900
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'The whole thing, lock, stock, and barrel, isn't worth one big yellow sea-poppy below Fort
The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Maisie was picking grass-tufts and throwing them down the slope at a yellow sea-poppy nodding all by itself to the illimitable levels of the mud-flats and the milk-white sea beyond.
The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Mrs. Jennett while Dick supported her with coarser perjuries; Maisie picking her way delicately from stone to stone, a pistol in her hand and her teeth firm-set; and Maisie in a gray dress sitting on the grass between the mouth of a cannon and a nodding yellow sea-poppy.
The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900
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The yellow sea-poppy was wiser, and nodded its head approvingly.
The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900
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On the white beach-sand dried stumps of sea-poppy shivered and chattered.
The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Among the stones by the waste places there are pale-green wrinkled leaves, and the large yellow petals of the sea-poppy.
Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867
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