Martha shares more clever collective plant names, including a “mommy of poppies.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Mommy of Poppies”
We were talking earlier about collective nouns for plants.
Oh, you’ve got more?
I have plucked a few more from the internet.
You have sheafs of them, do you?
I do, bringing in the sheafs of collective nouns for plants.
How about this one?
For roses, a war of roses.
For passion flowers, a crime of passion flowers, a shepherd of flocks.
These are really good.
These are great, aren’t they?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
A murmur of rhubarbs.
How about the collective noun for tulips?
That would be a pursing of tulips.
Oh, very good.
And last but not least, my favorite.
Yes.
A mommy of poppies.
Isn’t that great?
That’s really sweet, actually, a mommy of poppies.
You can find lots more of those on the web.
We’ll link to some sites on our site.
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