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Prickly poppy   /prˈɪkli pˈɑpi/   Listen
Prickly poppy

noun
1.
Any plant of the genus Argemone having large white or yellow flowers and prickly leaves and stems and pods; chiefly of tropical America.  Synonyms: argemone, devil's fig, white thistle.
2.
Annual Old World poppy with orange-red flowers and bristly fruit.  Synonym: Papaver argemone.






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"Prickly poppy" Quotes from Famous Books



... crosses Cherry Creek, and then cross six miles of uninhabited prairie, seamed with gulches, and brown with withered herbage and cactus—no verdure except along the canals, where several species of Artemisia and a prickly poppy with a large white flower grow profusely. We then begin to mount the bare foot-hills, among which are curious masses of red rock as large as city churches, and washed by the storms of ages into various fantastic forms. We then enter a ravine or canon through ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 30. September, 1873 • Various



Words linked to "Prickly poppy" :   herb, Argemone mexicana, genus Argemone, genus Papaver, herbaceous plant, Papaver, poppy, Mexican poppy



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