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Poppies are used to celebrate November 11th. Poppy's favorite flowers were poppies. The red poppies popped against the green field. The poppies were wild flowers.
No, you most likely wouldn't fall asleep just from being in a field of poppies like in 'The Wizard of Oz'. Poppies must be harvested. In areas where they're cultivated, they still may be harvested by more primitive means that leave harvesters unprotected from the elements. Traditionally, harvesters use manual means and aren't paid well. So traditionally they never are encouraged to sleep on the job!
Because the field the war was on there were Hundrdes of thousands of poppies
The plural is poppies (flowers).The plural of poppy is poppies.For example: Many poppies were sold around the world for Remembrance Day.
A field of poppies causes Dorothy Gale to fall asleep in "The Wizard of Oz."The original 1900 book edition and the beloved 1939 film version of "The Wizard of Oz" are quite different. Among the similarities is the incident in the poppy field, which is one of the events that the book presents and the movie version retains. But in the book Dorothy is rescued by her travelling companions, who get the gracious Queen of the Field Mice to remove the Cowardly Lion also. In the movie, Glinda causes snow to fall and thereby protects everyone from the somnolent dangers of the poppies.
The singular form of poppies is poppy.
When Frank Baum wrote The Wizard of Oz, opium was legal. It is made from the poppy plant. The poppy is a beautiful flower. The poppy field is a place of beauty where Dorothy gets sidetracked from her goal of The Emerald City. The opium produced by poppies lead to sleep and death. The poppy field represents a warning about the dangers of getting sidetracked by something that looks extremely enticing because it could have a hidden danger.
The singular form of "poppies" is "poppy."
I cannot be sure what painting you mean. One famous "poppy painting" is Field of Poppies by Claude Monet, painted in 1873.
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Poppies give us poppy seeds and opium.
"Field with Poppies" is Vincent Van Gogh's most famous poppy field painting. It was painted in Auvers-sur-Oise in France in June of 1890. The painting is now located at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.