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Definition: POPPIES |
POPPIESPlural1. Of Poppy |
Date "POPPIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | Poppies seen in dreams, represents a season of seductive pleasures and flattering business, but they all occupy unstable foundations. If you inhale the odor of one, you will be the victim of artful persuasions and flattery. The mesmeric influence of the poppy inducts one into strange atmospheres, leaving materiality behind while the subjective self explores these realms as in natural sleep; yet these dreams do not bear truthful warnings to the material man. Being, in a manner, enforced. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A poppy is a annual, biennial, or perennial plant of the Family Papaveraceae, typically with showy flowers borne one per stem, native mainly to the Northern hemisphere and often grown for ornament, opium or food. 15-100 cm high, it yields a milky sap (latex) and bears large lobed or divided leaves and white, pink, orange, or red flowers, sometimes with a dark centre, with 4-6 petals around a whorl of stamens. The fruit is a capsule with pores through which the seeds are dispersed.
Genera in this family include:
The poppy of wartime remembrance is the red corn poppy.
- Meconopsis (Himalayan poppy, Welsh poppy, and relatives)
- Papaver (Iceland poppy, Oriental poppy, Opium poppy, corn poppy and about 120 other species)
- Romneya (Matilija poppy and relatives)
- Eschscholzia ( California poppy and relatives)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Poppy."
Crosswords: POPPIES |
| English words defined with "POPPIES": Diacodium ♦ genus Argemone, genus Stylophorum ♦ Poppied ♦ Stylophorum. (references) |
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Tongue Twisters | A proper crop of poppies is a proper poppy-crop. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Poppies Are Also Flowers (1966) Flaming Poppies (1963) When the Poppies Bloom Again (1937) Poppies of Flanders (1927) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | California golden poppies. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Field of California golden poppies. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Orange Poppies" by Donna Cunningham Commentary: "Large Poppies in Highlands of Scotland." | "California Poppies" by Dan Masters Commentary: "California desert poppies." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Mexico | The soldiers alleged that while on a routine drug patrol, they saw Martinez and his brother on a hill near a field of poppies and called for them to halt. (references) |
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| "POPPIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 90.57% of the time. "POPPIES" is used about 159 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 90.57% | 144 | 26,339 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.43% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Total | 100.00% | 159 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "POPPIES": poppies-style. | |
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| Language | Translations for "POPPIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 鸦片 (Opium, Poppy). (various references) | |
German | Mohnblumen. (various references) | |
Korean | 양귀비 (Poppy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oppiespay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Papaver rhoesas, Papaver rhoesas Linneaeus, Papaver somniferum. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"POPPIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: buppies, Oppies, pappei, Pompiers, poopie, popeyes, popie, popisa, popiwek, Poplius, Poppaea, poppeye, poppi, poppier, poppiest, poppiues, popples, popsie, pupies, puppys. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "POPPIES" (pronounced pÄ"pēz) |
| 4 | -Ä" p ē z | copies. |
| 3 | -p ē z | groupies, Guppies, herpes, hippies, philanthropies, photocopies, puppies, recipes, therapies, yuppies. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-o-p-p-p-s" | |
-1 letter: popsie. | |
-2 letters: pepos, pipes, poise, popes. | |
-3 letters: epos, opes, pepo, peps, peso, pies, pipe, pips, piso, pois, pope, pops, pose, sipe. | |
-4 letters: oes, ope, ops, ose, pep, pes, pie, pip, pis, poi, pop, psi, sei, sip, sop. | |
-5 letters: es, is, oe, op, os, pe, pi, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-o-p-p-p-s" | |
+3 letters: pepperonis. | |
+5 letters: appropriates, polypeptides, presupposing, prosopopoeia. | |
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