noun
annual European poppy common in grain fields and often cultivated
• Syn: ↑field poppy, ↑Flanders poppy, ↑Papaver rhoeas
• Hypernyms: ↑poppy
• Member Holonyms: ↑Papaver, ↑genus Papaver
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noun : an annual red-flowered poppy (Papaver rhoeas) common in European grainfields and cultivated in several varieties — called also field poppy
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a common Old World poppy, Papaver rhoeas, having bright-red flowers. Also called field poppy, Flanders poppy.
[1875-80; so called from its growing in grainfields]
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corn poppy noun
The field poppy
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Main Entry: ↑corn
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corn poppy,
the common field poppy of Europe, having bright red flowers; coquelicot.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.