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.
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Papaverous
//pəˈpævəɹəs//
Synonyms for "papaverous"
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Finnish
2 entries- unettava adj (inducing sleep)
- unikkoinen adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the poppy)
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The morphology of stamens and carpels of the crucifer flower as well as their anatomy bears testimony to a papaverous ancestry.
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The mountains are dry and brown and so remote that not even helicopters fly overhead, spraying their poison over papaverous hillsides.
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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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