| 单词 | mexican poppy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMexican poppy Mexican poppy n. (a) a prickly poppy, Argemone mexicana, with spiny leaves and yellow flowers, which is native to Central America, is grown for ornament, and has become a weed in many warm countries; (b) U.S. regional any of several plants of the south-western United States that have poppy-like flowers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > poppy and allied flowers > allied flowers poppyOE horned poppy1548 yellow poppy1548 sea poppy1562 garden poppy1577 wind-rose1597 prickly poppy1648 squatmore1691 oriental poppy1731 Welsh poppy1731 infernal fig1760 Mexican poppy1811 Meconopsis1836 redcap1846 horn-poppy1851 squirrel-corn1856 eschscholtzia1857 dielytra1864 Dicentra1866 yellow thistle1866 turkey-corn1884 Shirley poppy1886 1811–12 W. J. Titford Sketches Hortus Botanicus Americanus 74 Mexican poppy. See explanation of Plate IX. Fig. 1. 1846 G. R. Gibson Jrnl. Soldier 16 July (1935) 150 I noticed a large thistle, the leaves a light blue, and the flower a rich white one, similar in size and appearance to a hollyhock but more delicate when close to it, now called ‘Mexican poppy’. 1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xxi. 211 We crossed a score of creeks in ten miles, fringed by tobacco-bush with privetlike leaves, and Mexican poppy simulating a Scotch thistle. 1951 T. H. Kearney et al. Flowering Plants & Ferns Arizona (ed. 2) 492 This plant [sc. Kallstroemia grandiflora], often locally known as Arizona-poppy, Mexican-poppy, and summer-poppy. 1995 Smithsonian Jan. 80 A few desert basins have been freckled with..hot oranges of Mexican poppies. 1998 R. J. Taylor Desert Wildflowers N. Amer. 220 Mexican poppy Eschscholzia mexicana. < as lemmas |
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