mexican poppy

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   annual herb with prickly stems and large yellow flowers; southern United States to West Indies and Mexico

   SynonymsArgemone mexicana

   Broaderprickly poppy

Questions about mexican poppy

What does mexican poppy mean?

mexican poppy means "annual herb with prickly stems and large yellow flowers; southern United States to West Indies and Mexico".

What is another word for mexican poppy?

Close synonyms include Argemone mexicana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mexican poppy a common word?

mexican poppy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.