plume poppy

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   herb of China and Japan widely cultivated for its plumelike panicles of creamy white flowers

   SynonymsbocconiaMacleaya cordata

   Broaderpoppy

   Part ofMacleaya

Questions about plume poppy

What does plume poppy mean?

plume poppy means "herb of China and Japan widely cultivated for its plumelike panicles of creamy white flowers".

What is another word for plume poppy?

Close synonyms include bocconia, Macleaya cordata. 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 plume poppy a common word?

plume 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.