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BLUE POPPY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blue poppy mean? 

BLUE POPPY (noun)
  The noun BLUE POPPY has 1 sense:

1. Chinese perennial having mauve-pink to bright sky blue flowers in drooping cymesplay

  Familiarity information: BLUE POPPY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLUE POPPY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Chinese perennial having mauve-pink to bright sky blue flowers in drooping cymes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blue poppy; Meconopsis betonicifolia

Hypernyms ("blue poppy" is a kind of...):

poppy (annual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers)

Holonyms ("blue poppy" is a member of...):

genus Meconopsis; Meconopsis (herbs almost entirely of mountains of China and Tibet; often monocarpic)


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