SHIRLEY POPPY


Meaning of SHIRLEY POPPY in English

a cultivated strain of the corn poppy, having variously colored single or double flowers.

[ 1885-90; after a race of the species selected and named by William Wilks (1843-1923), English horticulturist, of Shirley vicarage, Croydon, Surrey ]

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