poppy family

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noun

1. the plant family Papaveraceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having white, yellow, or reddish juice, alternate and often lobed or dissected leaves, showy, usually solitary flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bloodroot, creamcups, greater celandine, and poppies of the genera Papaver, Eschscholzia, Argemone, and others.

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poppy family

Now this Sanguinaria belongs to the Papaveraceae—the poppy family.'

From A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner

But then, proximity to the poppy family started him thinking.

From The Land of Look Behind by Paul Cameron Brown

Sanguinā′ria, a genus of the poppy family, one species, the Blood-root or Puccoon of North America, much used by the Indians for staining.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

The tree-poppy is the only truly woody plant in the poppy family.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons