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|lshtext=<b>păpāver</b>: ĕris, n. ([[ante]]-[[class]]., m.) [etym. dub.; cf. [[root]] pa- of [[pasco]], [[πέπαμαι]]],<br /><b>I</b> the [[poppy]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[papaver]] [[Gallicanus]], [[Cato]] ap. [[Charis]]. p. 64 P.: [[sesamum]] papaveremque, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 113;<br /> v. [[infra]], prov.; Varr. ap. Non. 220, 11: [[luteum]], Cat. 19, 12: spargens soporiferum [[papaver]], Verg. A. 4, 486; id. G. 4, 131: Lethaeo perfusa papavera somno, id. ib. 1, 78: Cereale, id. ib. 1, 212: nigrum, Plin. 26, 8, 40, § 67; 20, 18, 76, § 198. —In plur.: [[summa]] papaverum capita, the heads of the tallest poppies, Liv. 1, 54, 6; Petr. poët. 132, 11.—Prov.: [[confit]] [[cito]], Quam si formicis tu obicias papaverem, of [[any]] [[thing]] [[that]] [[quickly]] disappears, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 8.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf., a [[kernel]], [[seed]]: [[papaver]] fici, [[fig]]-[[seed]], Tert. Praescr. 36.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.: dicta [[quasi]] papavere et sesamo sparsa, Petr. 1 fin.>