noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tall poppy syndrome
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
opium
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Rugged mountains, clear icy streams, and in springtime carpets of pink and blue opium poppies bending in the wind.
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Their annual income on an acre of opium poppy is about £300.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it is the poppies which dazzle.
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By November 1924, 185 persons were employed, and twenty-seven million poppies were produced.
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For this reason lupins, poppies, carrots and parsnips are notoriously difficult to transplant successfully.
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I have not seen a cultivated poppy as good as this anywhere.
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I notice that my dress has three poppies at the waist.
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What could look lovelier than any or all of these complemented by orange poppies?
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While we planted wild poppies, Mrs Saulitis told me about her love affair with the sergeant.