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Noun: bocconia
  1. Herb of China and Japan widely cultivated for its plumelike panicles of creamy white flowers
    - plume poppy, Macleaya cordata
     
  2. Small Central American tree having loose racemes of purple-tinted green flowers
    - tree celandine, Bocconia frutescens

Derived forms: bocconias

Type of: angiospermous tree, flowering tree, poppy

Part of: genus Bocconia, genus Macleaya, Macleaya

Encyclopedia: Bocconia, Numidia