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The name poppy can refer to any plant in the poppy family, especially in the genus Papaver, which typically have red, orange, or white showy, solitary flowers.

Varieties include the California poppy, the Oriental poppy, the corn poppy, the Iceland poppy, and the prickly poppy. Poppies are popular in gardens and bouquets.

Poppies release a milky sap that we call latex. Poppy seeds are used in baking and cooking. The variety of poppy known as the opium poppy is used to produce opium, which contains several narcotic substances used in drugs and painkilling medicines (including morphine and codeine).

After World War I, red poppies became a symbol used to remember fallen soldiers. Today, these are often artificial. The poppy is one of the August birth flowers (a flower that’s associated with a particular month in the same way as a birthstone).

Example: My grandfather always pins a poppy to his shirt on Memorial Day.

Completely unrelatedly, the word poppy is also an adjective form of the noun pop, as in pop music, which is simply a shortening of popular. This sense of poppy is used to describe things considered representative of pop.

Example: The band seems like they’re going for more of a poppy sound on their new album. 

The first records of the word poppy come from before the year 900. It comes from the Old English ��DZ�æ��, ultimately from the Latin �貹���屹���.

The association between poppies and sleep predates the “poppies will make them sleep” scene in The Wizard of Oz. Opium, whose name comes from a Latin word meaning “poppy juice,” contains several narcotic elements, including morphine, that can cause sleepiness. The narco- root in both narcotic and the name of the sleep disorder narcolepsy comes from the Greek �Բ�����ŧ, meaning “numbness.” The word morphine is based on the name of Morpheus, the Greek god of sleep and dreams.

What are some other forms related to poppy?

• poppylike (adjective)

What are some words that share a root or word element with poppy?��

• California poppy
• Oriental poppy
• corn poppy
• Iceland poppy
• prickly poppy
• opium poppy
• poppy seed

What are some words that often get used in discussing poppy?

• flower
• red
• orange
• white
• seed
• opium
• opiate
• narcotic
• latex

Poppies are popular and well-known flowers. They are known for being a symbol of remembrance for fallen soldiers. They are also associated with opium. And their seeds are popular in baked goods like breads and muffins.

This absurdly bright flower is celandine poppy! A native here, likes shady woodlands, reseeds a lot. I tried to establish it like five times and failed. The last one managed to set seed and it established in a crack at the edge of the raised bed. I’ll take it.

— Kingfisher & Wombat (@UrsulaV)

Harvested my poppy seeds for next year. I think the pods are as pretty as the flowers 🌺

— Hayley (@HayleyNature)

Bengal to use satellite imagery in fight against poppy cultivation, opium trade

( reports)

— Hindustan Times (@htTweets)

True or False?��

Latex is derived from poppies.