Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants of the natural order Papaveraceæ, the poppy family, and the tribe Eupapavereæ, charactrized by a capsule which splits open for a short distance, and by a club-shaped style bearing from four to six radiate-deflexed stigma-lobes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
poppy -like plants , of the genus Meconopsis, most of which are found in theHimalayas
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun herbs almost entirely of mountains of China and Tibet; often monocarpic
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Did he know a flower called meconopsis, if that was the way to spell it, a sort of poppy of a most lovely colour?
Over the River 2004
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It was a meconopsis, a name derived from the Greek mekon (poppy) and opsis (like).
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It was a meconopsis, a name derived from the Greek mekon (poppy) and opsis (like).
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