POPPY
What does "POPPY" mean?
A bright-flowered plant of the genus Papaver, often red, and a symbol of remembrance.
Meanings
- A herbaceous plant with showy, usually red, cup-shaped flowers and milky sap; some species yield opium. A field of red poppies swayed at the edge of the wheat.
- An artificial or worn red poppy as a symbol of remembrance for war dead. He pinned a paper poppy to his lapel for Remembrance Day.
- Bright, catchy, and appealing, especially of pop music ('poppy'). The new single has a poppy, radio-friendly chorus. informal
Did you know?
- The poppy became the flower of remembrance because of one poem - John McCrae's 1915 'In Flanders Fields' - which described red poppies blooming over soldiers' graves.
Word origin
From Old English 'popig', 'papig', from Late Latin 'papavum', from Latin 'papaver' (poppy), of uncertain ultimate origin.
Remember it
POPPY = two P's like two petals; the bright red bloom that 'pops' against a green field.
A little poem
Red where the guns were-
the poppy keeps a bright vow
the soil cannot read.
haiku
Wordplay
- The new pop band wrote a song about a flower of remembrance - critics called it poppy, which it doubly was.
What it teaches
Out of churned and ruined ground the brightest flower often rises - memory turns even wreckage into something worth wearing.
Quick facts
What does POPPY mean?
A bright-flowered plant of the genus Papaver, often red, and a symbol of remembrance.
Is POPPY a valid word?
Yes — POPPY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is POPPY?
POPPY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does POPPY come from?
From Old English 'popig', 'papig', from Late Latin 'papavum', from Latin 'papaver' (poppy), of uncertain ultimate origin.
What can POPPY teach us?
Out of churned and ruined ground the brightest flower often rises - memory turns even wreckage into something worth wearing.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.