Definition of Papaver rhoeas

1. Noun. Annual European poppy common in grain fields and often cultivated.

Exact synonyms: Corn Poppy, Field Poppy, Flanders Poppy
Generic synonyms: Poppy
Group relationships: Genus Papaver, Papaver

Lexicographical Neighbors of Papaver Rhoeas

Papagou
Papal States
Papal infallibility
Papanicolaou's stain
Papanicolaou examination
Papanicolaou smear
Papanicolaou smear test
Papanicolaou stain
Papanicolaou test
Papaver alpinum
Papaver argemone
Papaver californicum
Papaver heterophyllum
Papaver nudicaule
Papaver orientale
Papaver rhoeas
Papaver somniferum
Papaveraceae
Papaverales
Papaw
Pape
Papeete
Paper Scissors Stone
Papertsian
Papes
Papez circuit
Paphians
Paphiopedilum
Paphlagonia

Literary usage of Papaver rhoeas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the by John Ruskin (1879)
"... CHAPTER V. papaver rhoeas. BRANTWOOD, July nth, 1875. I. /"CHANGING to take up yesterday a favourite ^-^ old book, ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"papaver rhoeas L. Sp. Pl. 507. 1753. Erect, branching, i°-3° high, hispid with spreading bristly hairs. Lower leaves petioled, 4'-6' long, the upper smaller ..."

3. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1920)
"Über einige genetische Versuche mit papaver rhoeas and Papaver laevigatum. [Some genetical experiments with papaver rhoeas and Papaver ..."

4. Biologisches Zentralblatt by Isidor Rosenthal, Georg Thieme (1885)
"papaver rhoeas ist heute ein gemeines Unkraut in den Feldern des untern Aegyptens, besonders des Deltas, fehlt aber in Oberägypten. ..."

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