Welsh poppy

noun

: a widely cultivated western European plant (Meconopsis cambrica) of the family Papaveraceae with showy pale-yellow pedunculate flowers

Word History

First Known Use

1731, in the meaning defined above

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Rhymes for Welsh poppy

• atopy
• choppy
• copy
• floppy
• sloppy
• photocopy