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papavero

poppy

noun pah-PAH-veh-roh Rare
Animals & Nature Plants

Origin: Latin papaver

Usage Note

Papavero refers to the common poppy (Papaver rhoeas), the red wildflower of fields and roadsides. Papavero da oppio is the opium poppy. The plural is regular: papaveri. In informal speech, un papavero can also mean a bigwig or VIP — a colloquial sense worth noting.

Examples

"I papaveri rossi crescono lungo la strada."

Natural Translation

The red poppies grow along the road.

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