Definition of Mexican tulip poppy

1. Noun. Native of Mexican highlands grown for its glossy clear yellow flowers and blue-grey finely dissected foliage.

Exact synonyms: Golden Cup, Hunnemania Fumariifolia
Generic synonyms: Poppy
Group relationships: Genus Hunnemania, Hunnemannia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mexican Tulip Poppy

Mexican jumping beans
Mexican juniper
Mexican mint
Mexican monetary unit
Mexican nut pine
Mexican onyx
Mexican overdrive
Mexican peso
Mexican plateau
Mexican pocket mouse
Mexican poppy
Mexican standoff
Mexican sunflower
Mexican swamp cypress
Mexican tea
Mexican tulip poppy (current term)
Mexican valium
Mexican wave
Mexican waves
Mexican wolf
Mexicanism
Mexicanization
Mexicanizations
Mexicanize
Mexicanized
Mexicanizes
Mexicanizing
Mexicano
Mexicans
Mexicas

Literary usage of Mexican tulip poppy

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

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"Mexican tulip poppy. One yellow-flowered herb closely allied to the California poppy (Eschscholtzia) and of similar garden value, ..."

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