papaver orientale

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   commonly cultivated Asiatic perennial poppy having stiff heavily haired leaves and bright scarlet or pink to orange flowers

   Synonymsoriental poppy

   Broaderpoppy

   Part ofPapaver

Questions about papaver orientale

What does papaver orientale mean?

papaver orientale means "commonly cultivated Asiatic perennial poppy having stiff heavily haired leaves and bright scarlet or pink to orange flowers".

What is another word for papaver orientale?

Close synonyms include oriental poppy. 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 papaver orientale a common word?

papaver orientale 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.