water poppy

noun

1. a Brazilian, aquatic plant, Hydrocleys nymphoides, having yellow, poppylike flowers.

Example Sentences

A warmer, calmer climate awaits just a few doors away in the warm tropics, where aquatic plants like duckweed, water poppy and lotus dance on the surface of a tank.

From Seattle Times

Then there wuz the lotus from Egypt, and Indian lilies, and that magnificent flower, Humboldt's last discovery, "the water poppy."

From Project Gutenberg

Other good kinds are hornwort, water starwort, tape grass, water poppy, milfoil, willow moss, and floating plants like duckweed.

From Project Gutenberg