papaveracées

les papaveracées (FR N-F PL) papaveracious plants, that is, members of the poppy family. The plant is actually an herb with its showy flower, milky juice, and fruit that contains the potent drug opium in crude form. In the »language of flowers,« the red poppy symbolizes consolation as well as evanescent pleasure, the extravagant and fantastic. First appears in French in 1798, from Latin papaver (poppy). (Fombeure)