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Definition of Field poppy
1. Noun. Annual European poppy common in grain fields and often cultivated.
Generic synonyms: Poppy
Group relationships: Genus Papaver, Papaver
Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Poppy
Literary usage of Field poppy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Farmer's Instructor, Or Practical Agriculturist: Comprehending by Francis S. Wiggins (1840)
"... The Small or field poppy, as well as the maw seed, a variety of the garden
poppy, is extensively cultivated on the continent of Europe—and to some small ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"385: " In 1880, I noticed in a waste corner of my garden, abutting on the fields,
a patch of the common wild field Poppy ..."
3. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1901)
"The Carnation, Picotee, and Ranunculus Poppies are double forms of the common
red field Poppy, possessing almost every colour except blue and yellow ..."
4. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"The field poppy, P. ... fa less branched than the field poppy, which ft greatly
resembles, but differs In the filaments of the stamens, which are dilated ..."
5. Farm Friends and Farm Foes: A Text-book of Agricultural Science by Clarence Moores Weed (1910)
"The field poppy has long been a pest in European wheat fields; but it gives to the
... This field poppy has been introduced into many regions in America, ..."
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