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POPPY FAMILY [4 records]

Record 1 2016-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
Universal entry(ies)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
Entrada(s) universal(es)
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Record 2 2009-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

Poppy family.

OBS

Wild deep-yellow flower of Northeastern and North-central North America.

OBS

wood poppy: name given by the Committee on status of endangered wildlife in Canada for the Canadian Species at Risk.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Familles des Papavéracées.

OBS

Fleur sauvage jaune foncé de l'est de l'Amérique du Nord.

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Medicinal Plants
DEF

Any of a genus(Papaver) of annual and perennial plants of the poppy family, having a milky juice, showy pink, white, red, orange, purple, or yellow flowers, and capsules containing many small seeds, including the opium poppy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Culture des plantes médicinales
DEF

Plante dicotylédone (Papavéracées), herbacée, indigène ou exotique, annuelle ou vivace, [...] cultivée pour ses fleurs ornementales, ses graines et ses capsules.

CONT

On appelle pavots toutes les papavéracées du genre Papaver, regroupant plusieurs espèces allant du coquelicot (Papaver rhoeas) au pavot à opium (Papaver somniferum). Les pavots ont de grandes fleurs solitaires, souvent très colorées [...] Les étamines sont nombreuses. Le pistil est une capsule le plus souvent courte et renflée, portant à son sommet des stigmates disposés comme les rayons d'un cercle. La plante produit un latex blanc, les feuilles sont pennées ou bi-pennées.

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
  • Botany
DEF

Pertaining to or like a poppy; belonging to the poppy family of plants.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
  • Botanique
OBS

Ressemblant au pavot.

Spanish

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