pəˈpavə(r), -ˈpāv- noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, poppy — more at poppy
: a genus (the type of the family Papaveraceae) of chiefly bristly hairy herbs or occasionally subshrubs with lobed or dissected leaves, long-peduncled often nodding usually large and showy flowers, and a capsular fruit topped by a radiate disk and dehiscent by pores immediately below — see opium poppy