Poppy

Definition: Poppy

Poppy

Noun

1. Annual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Poppy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a poppy".

Date "poppy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Moderation

Measure, juste milieu, golden mean, gr/ariston metron/gr moderator; lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic, carminative, laudanum; rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk, opium, "poppy or mandragora"; wet blanket; palliative.

Crosswords: Poppy

Poppy (1936)

The Poppy Trail (1920)

Poppy (1917)

The Sign of the Poppy (1916)

Venom of the Poppy (1911)

Which Way You Goin' Billy (performing artist: The Poppy Family)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Poppy (reference)

• Poppy (Rushton, Rosie. Fab 5.) (reference)

• Smoking Poppy (reference)

• Tibetan Poppy Postbound Magnetic Page Photo Album (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Reinhold Gliere: Symphony No. 1/The Red Poppy Suite (reference)

• Poppy (reference)

• Short Poppy Syndrome (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

There are royal blue bowls (1 large, 1 small) full of white popcorn, on a white tablecloth. Behind the bowls are a glass mug of tea with a lemon slice and a cinnamon stick and a red poppy. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

California poppy is a native plant in California. This plant provides color and beauty as well as wildlife habitat. Credit: Gary Kramer.

California poppy. Credit: Gary Kramer.

California Poppy of the genus Eschscholtzia. Credit: Unknown.

California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica) along Meadows Road in Sam's Valley. Credit: Terry Tuttle.

Christmas card with three-quarter length portrait of Walter and Poppy Cannon White, in Tokyo, wearing Japanese kimonos. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Opioids are derived from the poppy plant and are among the oldest drugs known to humankind. (references)

Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of certain varieties of poppy plants. (references)

Once indoors, people should check themselves and their children for ticks, particularly in the hairy regions of the body. The immature deer ticks that are most likely to cause Lyme disease are only about the size of a poppy seed, so they are easily mistaken for a freckle or a speck of dirt. All clothing should be washed. (references)

Economic History

Colombia

This funding supported Colombia's counternarcotics efforts, such as arresting drug traffickers, seizing drugs and illegal processing facilities, and eradicating coca and opium poppy. (references)

Colombia

Through aerial spraying of herbicide and manual eradication, Colombia has attempted to keep coca, opium poppy, and cannabis cultivation from expanding. (references)

Afghanistan

Later, in 2001, the Taliban reportedly announced that poppy cultivation could resume. (references)

Political Economy

Colombia

As part of its assistance to "Plan Colombia," the U.S. government is providing equipment, training, and technical assistance to the Colombian anti-narcotics police and the military to increase their capability to eradicate illicit coca and poppy cultivation and to conduct interdiction operations. (references)

Burma

In 1999, poppy cultivation and opium production continued their three-year decline, falling 31 percent and 38 percent respectively. (references)

Afghanistan

During the year, the Taliban reportedly announced that poppy cultivation could be resumed. (references)

Trade

Pakistan

These include live animals, beef and mutton, wheat, cotton, rice, arms, ammunition and explosives, nuclear substances, precious and semi-precious stones, poppy seeds, and ferrous and non-ferrous metal. (references)

Pakistan

The exports are subject to certain conditions, such as registration with the Export Promotion Bureau, and permission from government departments: cotton, rice, metals, arms, ammunition and explosives, complete rocket and unmanned air vehicle systems, nuclear substances, precious and semi-precious stones and gold jewelry, poppy seeds, urea, pet dogs and cats, and wild boars, including meat and hides. (references)

Bangladesh

Other items completely banned on either religious/social/health grounds or on economic grounds in the case of textile products that compete directly with locally produced items, including: live pigs, pig and poultry fat, eggs (except hatching eggs), poppy seeds and dried posto dana, marijuana, opium, tendu leaves, lard, lard and tallow oil, solid or semi-solid palm oil, raw sugar, un-denatured ethyl alcohol (80.0% or higher) and other spirits denatured of any strength, wine, artificial mustard oil, selected petroleum products, woven fabrics of silk or silk waste, pig hair, some kinds of cloth, selected insecticides, nylon and polyethylene ropes, fishing nets (gillnets), used or new rags, vessels more than 15 years old, motorbikes more than three years old, and single phase electricity meters. (references)

Worker Rights

Burma

Government troops also forced villagers to eradicate opium poppy fields. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

A poppy

Expressions using "poppy": arctic poppy ♦ blue poppy ♦ bush poppy ♦ california poppy ♦ California tree poppy ♦ celandine poppy ♦ clustered poppy mallow ♦ corn poppy ♦ field poppy ♦ flaming poppy ♦ flanders poppy ♦ fringed poppy mallow ♦ horn poppy ♦ horned poppy ♦ Iceland poppy ♦ matilija poppy ♦ mexican poppy ♦ mexican tulip poppy ♦ opium poppy ♦ oriental poppy ♦ plume poppy ♦ poppy bee ♦ poppy family ♦ poppy mallow ♦ poppy plant ♦ poppy seed ♦ prickly poppy ♦ purple poppy mallow ♦ sea poppy ♦ Spatling poppy ♦ tree poppy ♦ Welsh poppy ♦ western poppy ♦ white poppy ♦ wind poppy ♦ wood poppy ♦ yellow horned poppy. Additional references.

Beginning with "poppy": poppy-and-bangy, poppy-cock, poppy-flowered, poppy-growers, poppy-growing, poppy-red, poppy-scarlet, poppy-seed, poppy-seed cake, poppy-seeds, poppy-seller, poppy-straw, poppy-water.

Ending with "poppy": anti-poppy, garden-poppy, Spattling-poppy.

Albanian

lulekuqe, bojë lulëkuqe. (various references)

Arabic 

‏لون أحمر فاتح, ‏خشخاش نبات مخدر. (various references)

Bulgarian 

опиум (dope, hop, opium), маков (papaveraceous, papaverous), мак, ален цвят (scarlet, turkey red). (various references)

Chinese 

鸦片 (Opium, Poppies), 罌粟 . (various references)

Czech

mák (poppy seed). (various references)

Danish

valmue (garden poppy, opium poppy, opuim poppy, Papaver somniferum, poppy plant, white poppy), opiumvalmue (opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, poppy plant), opiumsvalmue (garden poppy, opium poppy, opuim poppy, Papaver somniferum, poppy plant, white poppy), opiatvalmue (garden poppy, opium poppy, opuim poppy, Papaver somniferum, poppy plant, white poppy), korn-valmue (corn-poppy, red poppy), kornvalmue (corn-poppy, red poppy). (various references)

Dutch

papaver, klaproos (corn-poppy, red poppy). (various references)

Esperanto

papavo, papaveto. (various references)

Faeroese

dreymsólja. (various references)

Farsi 

کوکنار. (various references)

Finnish

unikko. (various references)

French

pavot (garden poppy, opium poppy, opuim poppy, poppy plant, white poppy), coquelicot (red poppy). (various references)

Frisian

klaproas. (various references)

German

Mohn (poppy seed), Mohnblume. (various references)

Greek 

παπαρούνα (poopy). (various references)

Hebrew 

פרג. (various references)

Hungarian

pipacs (flanders poppy, ponceau, red poppy), mák (garden-poppy, poppy seeds). (various references)

Indonesian

opium, bunga ganja. (various references)

Italian

papavero (corn-poppy, garden poppy, opium poppy, opuim poppy, Papaver somniferum, poppy plant, red poppy, white poppy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

芥子 (mustard), 罌粟 , ポーランド語 (beeper, death, drink, drip, fall drop by drop, fried potato, mail box, making up only parts of one's face instead of doing a full make-up job, pager, pocket, pocket bell, pocket bike, pocket computer, pocket money, pocket monster, pocketable, pocket-size, pod, poem, poetic, poetical, poetry, point, point and shoot, point getter, point of sales system, point of view, point size, pointer, pointing, poison, pole, Polish, poll, polling, ponytail, pop, pop art, pop country, pop fly, pop gospel, pop jazz, popgroup, pops, popular, popular music, pop-up, pop-up window, POS system, position, positioning, positive, positive film, positron, possibility, post, post-, post office, postcard, post-doc, poster, poster color, poster session, poster value, Post-It, postmaster, postmodern, post-process, postscript, post-season, pot, potato, potato chip, potato chips, pot-au-feu, potency, potential, pottering, soup, to break down, to fail). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ポピー , けし. (various references)

Korean 

양귀비 (Poppies). (various references)

Manx

lus y chadlee. (various references)

Papago

hohhi-e'es. (various references)

Pig Latin

oppypay.(various references)

Polish

mak. (various references)

Portuguese

papoula, dormideira (garden poppy, opuim poppy, white poppy). (various references)

Romanian

mac (opium poppy). (various references)

Russian 

мак. (various references)

Scottish

paipin. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mak. (various references)

Spanish

adormidera (garden poppy, opium poppy, opuim poppy, Papaver somniferum, poppy plant, white poppy), amapola. (various references)

Swedish

vallmo. (various references)

Thai

ต้นฝิ่น (opium poppy). (various references)

Turkish

haşhaş (hash, hasheesh, hashish, hemp, marihuana, marijuana, opium poppy), gelincik kırmızısı, gelincik (corn poppy, corn rose, stoat, weasel), afyon (opium, opium poppy, smoke). (various references)

Turkmen 

lдle, lдbik (troubled). (various references)

Ukrainian

опійний мак. (various references)

Welsh

pabi. (various references)

opion. (various references)

papaver. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "poppy": poppycock, poppycocks, poppyhead, poppyheads. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Poppy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: oppy, opy, pappey, pippi, pippy, ploppy, poopie, poopy, popay, popi, popie, Poppe, poppeye, poppi, popply, Poppo, popsy, popy, Ppy, puppi, puppp, puppys, Pupy, toppy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: pop.

-3 letters: op, oy, yo.

+3 letters: puppydom.

+4 letters: eyepopper, joypopped, joypopper, poppycock, poppyhead, puppydoms, puppyhood.

+5 letters: eyepoppers, joypoppers, joypopping, poppycocks, poppyheads, puppyhoods.