Noun

1. Any plant of the genus Papaver, the poppies.

Noun

1. poppy
   • Livy, Ab Urbe condita, 1:54

     Summa papaverum capita dicitur baculo decussisse.

     It is said that he struck off the heads of the tallest poppies with a stick.

2. seed
   • Tertullian, de Praescriptione Haereticorum, 35

     De papavere ficus gratissimae et suavissimae ventosa et vana caprificus exsurgit

     From the seed of the most delicious and grateful fig branches out the useless and deceptive wild fig.