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poppy

/pop-ee/US // ˈpɒp i //UK // (ˈpɒpɪ) //

罂粟花,罂粟,杨梅,罂粟花的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pop·pies for 1, 2, 4-7.

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

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Examples

  • So he proudly watches his poppies grow while nervously eyeing a Drug Enforcement Administration crackdown on other would-be poppy rebels.

  • Choose a poppy color like coral, summer blue, and mint green.

  • Music journalist Joel Selwin annotates, with a preface by Donovan, a foreword by Jorma Kaukonen, and an afterword by John Poppy.

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

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

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

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

  • California seemed less like a voluptuous leviathan blowing poppy-dust that blunted the memory of all things beyond her borders.

  • Gives much, but claims all, and he who would open the poppy-gates must close the door of ambition and bid farewell to manhood.

  • The hills burst into buttercups, "blue eyes," yellow and purple lupins, the heavy pungent gold-red poppy.

  • A second inferior quantity is obtained by pressing and boiling the poppy heads and stems.

  • Martin turned as red as a poppy, as he flashed up in honest anger that such paltry meanness should be charged on him.