celandine poppy

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noun

a poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum, of the east-central U.S., having one pair of deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers.

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Origin of celandine poppy

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60

Music journalist Joel Selwin annotates, with a preface by Donovan, a foreword by Jorma Kaukonen, and an afterword by John Poppy.
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Poppy Morgan went to her primary care doctor in 2010 because she desperately wanted to take a risk.
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Her gorgeous legs seemingly reaching up to the sky, Swift performed her new single, “Shake It Off,” with a bouncy, poppy energy.
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Cases in point: girl starbabies named Autumn James, Gracie James, Mary James, Poppy James, Agnes Charles and Lucy Thomas.
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To this day, I, like many in Britain, still wear a poppy on Nov. 11.
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California seemed less like a voluptuous leviathan blowing poppy-dust that blunted the memory of all things beyond her borders.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Gives much, but claims all, and he who would open the poppy-gates must close the door of ambition and bid farewell to manhood.
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The hills burst into buttercups, "blue eyes," yellow and purple lupins, the heavy pungent gold-red poppy.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
A second inferior quantity is obtained by pressing and boiling the poppy heads and stems.
A Woman's Journey Round the World|Ida Pfeiffer
Martin turned as red as a poppy, as he flashed up in honest anger that such paltry meanness should be charged on him.
St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878|Various