poppywortn.
/ˈpɒpɪwəːt/, U.S. /ˈpɑpiˌwərt/, /ˈpɑpiˌwɔrt/ A plant of the family Papaveraceae.Used as a term more general in its application than poppy.
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1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 430 Papaveraceæ... Poppyworts.
1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 430 Bernhardi..denies that true Poppyworts are universally lactescent plants.
1882 Garden 15 July 39/1 This Poppywort may well be reckoned amongst the best of the hardy plants introduced of late years.
1904 R. J. Farrer Garden of Asia 100 The deeper gold of the poppywort.
1940 Times 22 May 9/1 A handsome new Chinese poppywort Meconopsis superbe with white flowers, shown by Lord Aberconway.
2001 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 18 Sept. 20 On an earlier quest for the alpine yellow poppywort or lampshade poppy (Meconopsis integrifolia), he survived a terrifying journey through storm-swollen rapids on the Yangtze River.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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