Poppy

Quick meaning: Poppy is a noun meaning A bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower.

Meaning

A bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower.

More Meanings

1. Of a bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower (Papaver rhoeas).
2. Having a popping or bursting sound.
3. Of a beverage: resembling soda pop; effervescent, fizzy.
4. Of eyes: protruding, sticking out.
5. Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially a common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.
6. (dated) Popular.
7. (chiefly Australia, British, Canada) A simple artificial poppy flower worn in a buttonhole or displayed in other contexts to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other armed conflicts, especially around Remembrance Day/Remembrance Sunday.

Example Sentences

Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row, / That mark our place; […] / If ye break faith with us who die / We shall not sleep, though poppies grow / In Flanders fields.

I thought Sparks were great; they were very poppy for Island Records. They were considered an oddity but you have to remember that at the time Roxy Music, now everyone's seminal band, were seen as very poppy.

We cherish, too, the poppy red / That grows on fields where valor led; / It seems to signal to the skies / That blood of heroes never dies, / […] / And now the torch and poppy red / We wear in honor of our dead. / Fear not that ye have died for naught; / We've learned the lesson that ye taught / In Flanders fields.

Word Forms

• poppies
• poppier
• poppiest

Synonyms for poppy

Depending on context, synonyms include bulging, pappy, pop, poppa, pop-pop.

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