Usually means: Bright flower, symbolizes remembrance, sleep.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word poppy:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. poppy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. poppy: Merriam-Webster
  3. poppy, poppy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. poppy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. poppy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. poppy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Poppy, poppy: Wordnik
  8. poppy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Poppy, poppy: Wiktionary
  10. poppy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. poppy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. poppy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. poppy: Dictionary.com
  14. poppy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. poppy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Poppy (Trolls), Poppy (disambiguation), Poppy (entertainer), Poppy (flower), Poppy (given name), Poppy (nickname), Poppy (novel), Poppy (satellite), Poppy (singer), Poppy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Poppy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. poppy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. poppy: Rhymezone
  20. poppy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. poppy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Poppy: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. poppy: FreeDictionary.org
  24. poppy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. poppy, poppy (horticultural): TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. poppy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. poppy, poppy (horticultural): Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. poppy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. poppy, poppy (horticultural): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. poppy: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Garden Flower, Shrub and Tree Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. poppy, poppy, poppy, poppy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. poppy: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Poppy: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. Poppy [blakey], poppy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See poppies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially a common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.
noun:  A bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower.
noun:  (chiefly Australia, British, Canada) A simple artificial poppy flower worn in a buttonhole or displayed in other contexts to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other armed conflicts, especially around Remembrance Day/Remembrance Sunday.
adjective:  Of a bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower (Papaver rhoeas).
adjective:  Having a popping or bursting sound.
adjective:  Of a beverage: resembling soda pop; effervescent, fizzy.
adjective:  Of eyes: protruding, sticking out.
adjective:  (dated) Popular.
adjective:  (music) Typical of, or in the style of, pop music.
noun:  (endearing) One's father or grandfather, or a male authority figure having similar standing.
noun:  (chiefly UK) A female given name from English, a flower name used since the end of the 19th century.
noun:  (informal) Former U.S. president George H. W. Bush
noun:  (as a term of address) Alternative form of poppy (“father, grandfather, or other male authority figure of a similar standing”) [Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially a common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.]

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