Papaverous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /pəˈpævəɹəs/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Papaverous is an adjective meaning Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the poppy.
Meaning
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the poppy.
More Meanings
- (figuratively) Inducing sleep; soporific.
Example Sentences
The morphology of stamens and carpels of the crucifer flower as well as their anatomy bears testimony to a papaverous ancestry.
The mountains are dry and brown and so remote that not even helicopters fly overhead, spraying their poison over papaverous hillsides.
He reduced the chaos of Smith to some order, and his style is sufficiently classical, but not the less prolix and papaverous on that account.
Now instead of a smell of Delight our Mandrakes afford a papaverous and unpleasant odor, whether in the leaf or apple, as is discoverable in their simplicity or mixture.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include papaveraceous, poperatic, pollinic, pontifical, papovaviral, opiate.
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