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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The poppy family, an order of dicotyledonous polypetalous plants, of the cohort Parietales, distinguished by the two to three sepals, and minute embryo near the base of fleshy albumen.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun A natural family of herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits.

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  • proper noun A taxonomic family within the order Ranunculales — many plants related to the poppy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits

Etymologies

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Papaver +‎ -aceae

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