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Definition of Prickly poppy

1. Noun. Any plant of the genus Argemone having large white or yellow flowers and prickly leaves and stems and pods; chiefly of tropical America.

2. Noun. Annual Old World poppy with orange-red flowers and bristly fruit.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prickly Poppy

prickliness pricklinesses prickling pricklouse prickly prickly-seeded spinach prickly ash prickly custard apple prickly heat prickly lettuce

prickly oak prickly pear prickly pear cactus prickly pears prickly pine prickly poppy (current term) prickly shield fern prickmadam prickpunch prickpunches

pricks prickshaft prickshafts pricksong pricksongs prickteaser prickteasers prickwood prickwoods pricky

Literary usage of Prickly poppy

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

1. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1907)
"The Mexican prickly poppy, with pale yellow or yellowish petals, ... This prickly poppy of the plains contains a narcotic substance in its latex. ..."

2. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1907)
"The Mexican prickly poppy, with pale yellow or yellowish petals, ... This prickly poppy-of the plains contains a narcotic substance in its latex. ..."

3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Leafy White prickly poppy. Fig. 1980. Argemone intermedia Sweet, Hort. Brit. Ed. 2, 585. 1830. Stem stout, prickly, glabrous and glaucous, often 2° high or ..."

4. An Inglorious Columbus: Or, Evidence that Hwui Shan and a Party of Buddhist by Edward Payson Vining (1885)
"... de Guignes —Appendix—J/a Taan-lin'i account—The fu-»ang said to be the prickly poppy of Mexico—Laws punishing a criminal's family have existed in China— ..."

5. An Inglorious Columbus: Or, Evidence that Hwui Shan and a Party of Buddhist by Edward Payson Vining (1885)
"... prickly poppy of Mexico—Laws punishing a criminal's family have existed in China— Chinese cycle of sixty years existed in India—Cattle harnessed to ..."

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