Crossword-Solution: PAPAVER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Papaver | n. | A genus of plants, including the poppy. |
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| genus of poppies | 1 answer |
| FLOWER variety | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also,
the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many
fishes.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
Discharge
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Sentences with PAPAVER (5)
You have, however, Ranunculus repens, Ranunculus parviflorus, Papaver rhoeas,? Papaver dubium,? Chelidonium majus,? Fumaria officinalis.? All these are Azorean plants.
The researches of Professor Sordelli confirm this hypothesis; from amongst the objects taken from the peat he recognized two kinds of corn (_Triticum vulgare antiquorum_ and _Triticum vulagere hibernum_), six-rowed barley (_Hordeum hexastichum_), mosses, ferns, flax, the Indian poppy (_Papaver somniferum_), acorns, and an immense number of nuts and apples.
This occurred in the plainest manner with the seeds of Papaver vagum and Delphinium consolida, and less plainly with those of Adonis aestivalis and Ononis minutissima.
Nevertheless Papaver vagum produced plenty of capsules in my garden when insects were excluded, but only late in the season.
Thus the crossed and self-fertilised plants of Ipomoea, Papaver, Reseda odorata, and Limnanthes were almost equally fertile, yet the former exceeded considerably in height the self-fertilised plants.
Quotes with PAPAVER (1)
Curiously, growing Papaver somniferum in America is legal — unless, that is, it is done in the knowledge that you are growing a drug, when, rather magically, the exact same physical act becomes the felony of “manufacturing a controlled substance.” Evidently the Old Testament and the criminal code both make a connection between forbidden plants and knowledge.