poppy

«poppy» in Mova's school dictionary: a plant with large, soft, usually bright red flowers and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a poppy, poppies)

meaning for a pupil

1) A poppy is a plant with large, soft, usually bright red flowers and a dark centre. tree →

2) A red paper or fabric poppy worn to remember soldiers who died in wars. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in nature lessons and in history: red poppies grew on battlefields of the First World War, so in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland people wear poppies on Remembrance Day (and Anzac Day). Children make poppy crafts.

examples

• Red poppies grew in the field. tree →
• We wear a poppy to remember soldiers. tree →
• Poppies have thin, papery petals. tree →
• The class made poppies out of paper. tree →
• Poppy seeds are on top of the bread. tree →
• A poppy wreath was laid at the memorial. tree →
• Poppies can also be orange, yellow or white. tree →
• Her favourite flowers were the dittany, poppy, and lily. tree →

note

Countable: plural "poppies" (y to ies). "Poppy" is also a girl's name. Some poppies are used to make medicines.

In the corpora

• Ukraine uses a red poppy with a black centre to remember the dead of the Second World War.
• In York, Poppy-Ann comes home with 5 out of 20 in spelling and waits for trouble.
• The fighting stopped at 11 o'clock on 11 November 1918, and today people wear red poppies to remember everyone who died.
• Remembrance Day on 11 November marks the end of the First World War in 1918, and people wear red poppies.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «poppy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.