noun
herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits
• Syn: ↑family Papaveraceae, ↑poppy family
• Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Rhoeadales, ↑order Rhoeadales, ↑Papaverales, ↑order Papaverales
• Member Meronyms:
↑poppy, ↑Papaver, ↑genus Papaver, ↑genus Argemone, ↑genus Bocconia, ↑Chelidonium, ↑genus Chelidonium, ↑Corydalis, ↑genus Corydalis, ↑Dendromecon, ↑genus Dendromecon, ↑Eschscholtzia, ↑genus Eschscholtzia, ↑Glaucium, ↑genus Glaucium, ↑Hunnemannia, ↑genus Hunnemania, ↑Macleaya, ↑genus Macleaya, ↑Meconopsis, ↑genus Meconopsis, ↑Platystemon, ↑genus Platystemon, ↑Romneya, ↑genus Romneya, ↑Sanguinaria, ↑genus Sanguinaria, ↑Stylomecon, ↑genus Stylomecon, ↑Stylophorum, ↑genus Stylophorum
Useful english dictionary. 2012.