noun
annual European poppy common in grain fields and often cultivated
• Syn: ↑corn poppy, ↑field poppy, ↑Papaver rhoeas
• Hypernyms: ↑poppy
• Member Holonyms: ↑Papaver, ↑genus Papaver
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nounUsage: usually capitalized F
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Flanders poppy
An emblem, from World War I, of the fallen British soldiers
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Main Entry: ↑poppy
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Flanders poppy,
the common field poppy of European cornfields; corn poppy; coquelicot. The Flanders poppy is a historic emblem or symbol of those who were killed in World War I.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.