papaverous
/pəˈpævəɹəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the poppy.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The morphology of stamens and carpels of the crucifer flower as well as their anatomy bears testimony to a papaverous ancestry."
- "The mountains are dry and brown and so remote that not even helicopters fly overhead, spraying their poison over papaverous hillsides."
- "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."
- ""Then," said Mr. Eupheme, smiling benevolently, "the papaverous influences of Somnus or Morpheus deprived you of the advantage of ascertaining the modus operandi used in conducting an examination.""
- "Was it prudently considered that the dullest of critics can read only as long as his eyes are open? and that the function of judge must incessantly bring under his congnisance papaverous volumes, with which only a superhuman endowment of vigilance could hope successfully to contend?"
Etymology
From Latin papāver + -ous.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more papaverous (comparative)
most papaverous (superlative)