poppy
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
poppy1
▶noun a plant having showy flowers, typically red or yellow, and rounded seed capsules. [Papaver rhoeas (corn poppy) and other species.]
– derivatives
poppied adjective.
poppied adjective.
– origin OE popig, papæg, from a med. L. alt. of L. papaver.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
poppy2
▶adjective (poppier, poppiest) (of popular music) tuneful and immediately appealing.
'poppy' also found in these Oxford entries:
agrimony
- California poppy
- celandine
- codeine
- eschscholzia
- Flanders poppy
- horned poppy
- Iceland poppy
- meconium
- opium
- papaveraceous
- Poppy Day
- poppy head
- tall poppy syndrome
