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Definition of Horn poppy
1. Noun. Yellow-flowered Eurasian glaucous herb naturalized in along sandy shores in eastern North America.
Generic synonyms: Flower
Group relationships: Genus Glaucium, Glaucium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horn Poppy
Literary usage of Horn poppy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Garden, Its Plan and Culture Together with a General Description of Its by Alfred Smee (1872)
"horn poppy. It grows abundantly by the sea-shore near Brighton, where its long
seed-pod cannot fail to attract attention. FIG. 502.—Canterbury Bell. FIG. ..."
2. A Preliminary Catalogue of the Flora of New Jersey by Nathaniel Lord Britton (1881)
"Yellow horn poppy. Princeton, rare, OR Willis ; in ballast at Communipaw, Addison
Brown. Adv. Eu. ..."
3. A General History of the County of Norfolk: Intended to Convey All the edited by John] [Chambers (1829)
"... 8, Yellow horn poppy—on the Norfolk coast Glaucium violaceum, 201, Violet Horn
Poppy—on the road 4 miles from Papaver ..."
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