Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The red field-poppy. Also coprose, cuprose.
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Examples
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The olives are scant and wan in the fields all round, with here and there the blossom of an almond; the oak woods, of faint wintry copper-rose, encroach above; and in the grassy space lying open to the sky, the mountain brook is dyked into a weir, whence the crystalline white water leaps into a chain of shady pools.
Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life Vernon Lee 1895
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Note that the copper-rose colored nucleus in the middle right part of the sepal shows the rare exception of an endoreduplicating cell that divides.
PLoS Biology: New Articles Adrienne H. K. Roeder et al. 2010
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