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Definition of Sea 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
Medical Definition of Sea poppy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Poppy
Literary usage of Sea poppy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics: Embracing the Myths, Traditions by Richard Folkard (1884)
"Upon this he leaped into the water, and was made a sea god by Oceanus and Tethys.
This Glaucium or sea poppy was called in the middle ages Ficus infernalis ..."
2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1885)
"Who cares if far-distant billows, Rocking the great ships to sea, Underneath the
tassels of the willows Rock the sea-poppy and the bee ? ..."
3. The Secret of Death, from the Sanskrit: With Some Collected Poems by Edwin Arnold (1885)
"Quiet, in the reaches of the river, Blooms the sea-poppy all alone; Hidden by
the marshy sedges ever, Who knows its golden cup is ..."
4. The Secret of Death, from the Sanskrit: With Some Collected Poems by Edwin Arnold (1885)
"Quiet, in the reaches of the river, Blooms the sea-poppy all alone; Hidden by
the marshy sedges ever, Who knows its golden cup is blown ? ..."
5. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Southern Europe, adv. in US Yellow Horned Poppy, Yellow sea poppy, Horn Poppy,
Bruise-root, Bruisewort, ..."
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