Papaverous

//pəˈpævəɹəs// adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the poppy.

    "Now instead of a smell of Delight our Mandrakes afford a papaverous and unpleasant odor, whether in the leaf or apple, as is discoverable in their simplicity or mixture."

  2. 2
    Inducing sleep; soporific. figuratively

    "He reduced the chaos of Smith to some order, and his style is sufficiently classical, but not the less prolix and papaverous on that account."

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"Now instead of a smell of Delight our Mandrakes afford a papaverous and unpleasant odor, whether in the leaf or apple, as is discoverable in their simplicity or mixture."

Etymology

From Latin papāver + -ous.

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