Meaning of papaver | Babel Free

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1. poppy
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2. seed
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3. Equivalent to 'Poppy': Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially...

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““… “Hesperidum templī cūstōs, epulāsque dracōnī quae dabat, et sacrōs servābat in arbore rāmōs,”

“[The priestess was once a] guardian of the Hesperides’ temple [garden], and was keeping safe the sacred branches on the tree [that grew golden apples]: she used to give food to a dragon, sprinkling dewy honey and the sleep-inducing poppy.” (In other words, drugging its sweet food made the guard-dragon docile. See: hyperbaton.)

“Summa papaverum capita dicitur baculo decussisse.”

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

“, Tertullian, de Praescriptione Haereticorum, 35”

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

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