Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the properties of, or characteristic of, the poppy, papaveraceous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the poppy; of the nature of the poppy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the poppy.
  • adjective figuratively Inducing sleep; soporific.

Etymologies

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From Latin papāver +‎ -ous.

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Examples

  • For Cromer may be the garden of sleep, but you shall find sleepier gardens and more papaverous poppies -- Somewhere Else.

    Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

  • Sometimes it is morphine or the narcotic principle, that characterises the vegetable milk, as in some papaverous plants; sometimes it is caoutchouc, as in the hevea and the castilloa; sometimes albumen and caseum, as in the cow-tree.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • Sometimes it is morphine or the narcotic principle, that characterises the vegetable milk, as in some papaverous plants; sometimes it is caoutchouc, as in the hevea and the castilloa; sometimes albumen and caseum, as in the cow-tree.

    Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

  • "Cromer may be the garden of sleep, but you shall find sleepier gardens and more papaverous poppies - Somewhere Else."

    NYT > Opinion 2010

  • Was it prudently considered that the dullest of critics can read only as long as his eyes are open? and that the function of judge must incessantly bring under his cognisance papaverous volumes, with which only a super-human endowment of vigilance could hope successfully to contend? so that the goddess is driven, by the necessity of the game, to admit within the circuit of her somnolent sway, a virtue to which she is naturally and peculiarly hostile?

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

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