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Definition of Oriental poppy
1. Noun. Commonly cultivated Asiatic perennial poppy having stiff heavily haired leaves and bright scarlet or pink to orange flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oriental Poppy
Literary usage of Oriental poppy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)
"oriental poppy. (PAPAVER BRACTEATUM. ' profusion, and far more than the variety,
that characterized the floral treasures of the old-fashioned example. ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Wilhelm Miller, Liberty Hyde Bailey (1901)
"The oriental poppy is, in fact, the only long-lived perennial Poppy. ...
oriental poppy, Papaver orientale (X 1-5), shades of pink between and all varieties ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"oriental poppy. Figs. 2752, 2753. ... No plant is more brilliant in late spring
or early summer than the oriental poppy, with its large fls., silken petals ..."
4. Popular Science Monthly (1904)
"This red poppy can even be divided at the root and multiplied like the perennial
oriental poppy. These hybrids have generally a dark mark at the base of the ..."
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