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Meconopsis

me·co·nop·sis

uncommon

noun

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herbs almost entirely of mountains of China and Tibet; often monocarpic

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From the genus name, coined by Linnaeus from μήκων (mḗkōn, “poppy”) + ὄψις (ópsis, “appearance”).

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