poppy has definitions from the field of botany
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[ noun ] (botany) annual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers

Used in print

(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

Three of these only were protected from us by stern commandment : the roses , whose petals might_not be collected until they had fallen , to be made into perfume or rose tea to drink ; the peonies , whose tight sticky buds would be blighted by the laying_on of_a finger , although they were not apparently harmed by the ants that crawled over them ; and the poppies .

I have more_than once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long summer morning and watched without touching while a poppy bud higher than my head slowly but visibly pushed off its cap , unfolded , and shook out like a banner in the sun its flaming vermilion petals .

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