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Papaver   Listen
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Papaver  n.  (Bot.) A genus of plants, including the poppy.






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"Papaver" Quotes from Famous Books



... Marygold laughed aloud. "Papaver!" she repeated in her most scornful tone; "she is nothing more nor less than a Poppy—a great offensive Poppy, whose breath fairly makes me ...
— Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing • T. S. Arthur

... low, open woodlands it gleams like a miniature sun. Alas! that the glorious CALIFORNIA POPPY, so commonly grown in Eastern gardens (Eschscholtzia Californica), should confine itself to a limited range on the Pacific Coast. We have no true native poppies (Papaver) in America; such as are rarely to be seen in a wild state, have only ...
— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan

... plant, flowers indifferently tetramerous, pentamerous, etc., that I need not give examples; but as numerical variations are comparatively rare when the parts are few, I may mention that, according to De Candolle, the flowers of Papaver bracteatum offer either two sepals with four petals (which is the common type with poppies), or three sepals with six petals. The manner in which the petals are folded in the bud is in most groups a very constant morphological ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin



Words linked to "Papaver" :   poppy family, oriental poppy, opium poppy, genus Papaver, Papaver nudicaule, Papaver alpinum, arctic poppy, Papaver rhoeas, field poppy, Papaveraceae, Papaver californicum, corn poppy



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