Definitions for Poppy

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Poppy pop·py

Spelling: [pop-ee]

IPA: /ˈpɒp i/

Poppy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in Poppy (opppy).

Definitions for Poppy

noun

1. any plant of the genus Papaver, having showy, usually red flowers. Compare poppy family.
2. any of several related or similar plants, as the California poppy or the prickly poppy.
3. an extract, as opium, from such a plant.
4. Also called poppy red. an orangish red resembling scarlet.
5. Architecture. poppyhead.
6. an artificial flower resembling a poppy, especially one received as evidence of a contribution to a fund for disabled war veterans.

Idioms

1. tall poppy, Australian. someone of preeminence or with a large income; important and powerful person.

Origin of Poppy

before 900; Middle English; Old English popæg, papig ≪ Vulgar Latin *papāvum, for Latin papāver

Examples for Poppy

With an expansion in poppy cultivation comes an increase in supply in our backyards.

Her gorgeous legs seemingly reaching up to the sky, Swift performed her new single, “Shake It Off,” with a bouncy, poppy energy.

French poppy beareth a faire flower, and the Seed will make you sleepe.

To this day, I, like many in Britain, still wear a poppy on Nov. 11.

I used to turn as red as a poppy when I happened to meet the eye of some spectator.

Cases in point: girl starbabies named Autumn James, Gracie James, Mary James, poppy James, Agnes Charles and Lucy Thomas.

poppy Morgan went to her primary care doctor in 2010 because she desperately wanted to take a risk.

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

Now solitude and silence are worse for me than poppy and mandragora.

You were in a poppy sleep on the mystic flowers of ancient dreams.