Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
copper-rose .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Red poppy. See
cop-rose .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect, Yorkshire The
red poppy .
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Examples
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Beside the flowers which sprang up from the fertility of soil unplanted and unattended, there was the heliotrope, sweet-pea, and cup-rose, transplanted from the island of Cuba.
Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States William Wells Brown
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Beside the flowers which sprang up from the fertility of soil unplanted and unattended, there was the heliotrope, sweet-pea, and cup-rose, transplanted from the island of Cuba.
Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter William Wells Brown
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